UFC 269 battle card primer: Amanda Nunes vs. Julianna Peña.

 


Get up to day on the co-main event of UFC 269 between Amanda Nunes and also Julianna Peña.

The co-main event of UFC 269 will certainly include a bantamweight title fight in between Amanda Nunes (21-4 MMA, 14-1 UFC) as well as Julianna Peña (10-4 MMA, 6-2 UFC). UFC 269: Oliveira vs. Poirier broadcasts live from the T-Mobile Field in Las Vegas, Nevada this Saturday, December 11th. The main card will start with a fight time of 10:00 p.m. ET/7.00 p.m. PT, with the ESPN/ESPN+ prelims beginning at 8:00 p.m. ET/5:00 p.m. PT and the early prelims kicking off at 6:00 p.m. ET/3:00 p.m. PT.


Exactly how do these 2 stack up?


Nunes: 33 years old|5' 8"|69" reach.


Peña: 32 years of ages|5' 7"|69" reach.


What have these 2 done just recently?


Nunes: W - Megan Anderson (SUB)|W - Felicia Spencer (DEC)|W - Germaine de Randamie (DEC).


Peña: W - Sara McMann (SUB)|L - Germaine de Randamie (SUB)|W - Nicco Montaño (DEC).

Just how did these two get right here?


Amanda Nunes vs. Julianna Peña was years in the making, and we are ultimately about to see how a fight in between these 2 women goes.

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A technical knockout loss to Cat Zingano was a precursor of greatness for Nunes, who took place to earn sway Shayna Baszler, Sara McMann and also Valentina Shevchenko before being awarded her first title shot given that joining the UFC. The 'Lioness' transformed heads when she tore via a well-known professional in Miesha Tate at UFC 200, where she promptly stunned as well as submitted 'Cupcake' in the opening round of their battle. Nunes' regime of sheer as well as utter supremacy proceeded as she dispatched of Ronda Rousey, Shevchenko again as well as Raquel Pennington over two years. What followed was a move up from bantamweight to featherweight to fulfill Cris Cyborg at UFC 232 in an attempt to end up being the following dual-champion of the UFC, with Conor McGregor as well as Daniel Cormier being the first two to accomplish such a task. In simply 51 secs, the desire was completely recognized, and also Nunes shocked the world by knocking out Cyborg for her 2nd title. Since then, she has alternated in between weight classes and successfully protected her titles in both, yet has returned to 135 for this conference with Peña.

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Peña has worked hard for this moment because winning her period of The Ultimate Fighter with a first-round technical knockout of Jessica Rakoczy over 8 years ago. The 'Venezuelan Vixen' had an unsteady start to her UFC pursue that, experiencing a best knee injury in training that maintained her inactive for more than year. She returned to the Octagon and also rattled off three successive sway Milana Dudieva, Jessica Eye and also Cat Zingano. The gain Zingano was on the exact same night as Tate vs. Nunes, so she utilized the possibility to plant the seeds for an ultimate meeting with the recently crowned champion. It did not immediately pertain to fruition as well as both ladies dealt with versus other contenders yet soon found themselves back in each other's paths. Peña went on to defeat Nicco Montaño as well as Sara McMann however fell versus Valentina Shevchenko and Germaine de Randamie in her past four outings. Back in the win column following her newest gain McMann, Peña reignited calls to battle Nunes and also claimed she thought the champ-champ was eluding her since she considers herself the worst stylistic matchup for her. After that, the battle was lastly made official for UFC 265 in August. Sadly, Nunes examined positive for COVID-19 as well as the battle was postponed till UFC 269 in December. The wait between dates has only heightened the competition between Nunes and also Peña, and also it comes to a head on Saturday evening.

Why should you care?

The moment for talk is over. Amanda Nunes either confirms why Julianna Peña was wrong regarding her with all that pre-fight trash talk, or the opposition upsets the champion as well as dethrones the consensus GOAT of women's MMA.

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