Everyone wants to see the female fighting showdown between Amanda Nunes and Cris Cyborg. Well, everyone except for Cris Cyborg herself.
Now, details have emerged about just how confident Amanda Nunes is in regards to moving up in weight for a champion vs. champion bout against her Brazilian fighting peer.
Taking to Tyron Woodley’s podcast, Amanda’s American Top Team coach Din Thomas revealed just how hungry his fighter is for the super-fight, quoting her in saying some interesting things about the proposed matchup.
Here’s what Thomas said:
“For the longest time, everybody’s been saying that Amanda didn’t want to fight Cyborg. I don’t really know how that rumor got started but everybody thought that, but I was hanging out with Amanda two weeks ago and I was at her crib and she was like, ‘Hey, I want to fight Cyborg. I hope she wins.’
“It wasn’t on no beef, she was just like, ‘I want to fight whoever wins.’ I was like, ‘You want to fight Cyborg?’ and she said, ‘Yeah I want to fight Cyborg. I don’t see what the threat is.’ That’s what she was telling me.
“For her to want that fight, I was like, hell yeah, let’s get this fight. She doesn’t see the threat that everybody thought was there for her. She doesn’t see it and I love that about Amanda when it comes to this fight. I think she presents way more problems than people think that she can give Cyborg.”
