Amanda Nunes ’s biggest career defeat came on the heels of one of her worst training camps. The former two-division UFC women’s champion recently opened up about the troubles she experienced in the lead-up to her massive upset loss to Julianna Peña back at UFC 269 in December 2021. Nunes (21-5 MMA, 14-2 UFC), who lost the UFC women’s bantamweight title that night in Las Vegas, said she was badly injured heading into her sixth title defense and that she was even advised to pull out of the fight. “A lot of things went wrong in my camp and I still moved forward with the camp,” Nunes told ESPN . “I didn’t want to let the fight fall through. Nina (Nunes) was always trying to tell me like, ‘Listen, if we have to pull out of this fight to get 100 percent, we can do that.’ But I didn’t want to listen.” Nunes was adamant about staying in the fight, as she had previously withdrawn due to testing positive for COVID-19 from the original booking against Peña, which was scheduled for August at UFC 265.
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