Efter sin vinst över Amanda Nunes så menar Julianna Peñas coach att Nunes underskattade sin motståndare.
Amanda Nunes underskattade Julianna Peña
Tidigare under december lyckades Julianna Peña (12-4) chocka världen då hon besegrade Amanda Nunes (21-5) via submission. Enligt Peñas coach, Luiz Claudio, var en av anledningarna till att Peña lyckades segra att Nunes underskattade henne. Claudio tror inte att Nunes syn på Peña ledde till att Nunes tränade mindre än vad hon borde inför matchen men att det oavsett påverkade resultatet.
Jämför Amanda Nunes med Anderson Silva
Det var under en intervju med MMA Fighting som Claudio nämnde att han tror att Nunes underskattade Peña och jämförde det med hur Anderson Silva (34-11-1) underskattade Chris Weidman (15-6) för flera år sedan.
I do think she underestimated Peña. Same thing that happened with Anderson Silva. I love Anderson, I respect him a lot, his style is to showboat, but unfortunately Chris Weidman touched his chin and we lost the fight. And I think that’s normal. Nunes had no one left to beat, really. Who else was she supposed to beat? Julianna, and who else? I don’t think Amanda underestimated her to a point of not training. I think she trained hard, she knew Julianna wasn’t easy. If we do have a rematch, she will obviously be motivated. We poked the lioness. We’ll respect her. It’ll be complicated. If this rematch happens, it’s the rematch of the century.
Tror att Amanda Nunes blev upprörd över Peñas kommentarer
Claudio tror även att Nunes blev upprörd över en del av Peñas kommentarer inför matchen.
Why was Amanda saying Julianna didn’t deserve it if she just fought someone who had the same record? What’s the beef? Julianna said, ‘Amanda is afraid of me because she lost to Cat Zingano and I’m not a good fight for her.’ And it’s a fact, right? She’s not a good fight for Amanda. I’ve always spoken good things about Amanda and American Top Team. I’ve never said, ‘Oh, Amanda will lose,’ because we knew it was going to be a war. But I’ve always said in every interview that Amanda. I think she was mad about the things Julianna said. It happens sometimes, to take things personal, and I think she was upset.
Visste att vinsten var Peñas
Trots oro i början av matchen så menar Claudio att han kände att vinsten var Peñas så fort hon lyckades ta Nunes rygg.
When she landed that first high kick, I said, ‘Wow, that was not a kick, that was a gunshot.’Everything we had trained, we knew she could kick, that she had a good front kick, and her high kick was absurd. But when Julianna got kicked the first time, I was like, ‘Shit, are we going to lose like that? So quick? Everything we trained, the checks, she did nothing. The second kick landed and I said, ‘We’re losing this fight.’ When Amanda took Julianna’s back, she submits people from that position. I thought, ‘Please God, we may lose, but let’s at least put up a fight, five rounds. When she took Amanda to the ground, I said, ‘We won the fight.’ When she took her back, I knew she would catch her. That choke she does, she doesn’t need the hooks in. She’s done that choke for a long time and we perfected it over time. When you put your chin down, she doesn’t strangle you on the neck, you feel the jaw, it feels like it’s going to break.I don’t know if Amanda got tired or what. Peña hurts people from that position. I won’t say what I don’t know, but Julianna taps everyone from that position. I don’t think Amanda quit. I think she really felt it, and every athlete knows sometimes you’ll win and sometimes you’ll lose.
Nunes och Peña möttes på UFC 269 som ägde rum den 12:e december i Las Vegas, USA.
