At Sunday's UFC 269 Joint Home, UFC women's welter and featherweight double champion Amanda Nunes was subdued by Julianna Pena, who ranked fifth in the UFC women's welt, dropping her gold belt, making Penha the first player to beat a lioness since September 2014.
The pre-match Lioness ranked first in all kinds of women's MMA P4P rankings in the world, and because she is also the champion of the UFC women's largest level, she is also the undisputed "strongest female boxer in the world". With a professional record of 21 wins and 4 losses, the Lioness is unbeaten for seven consecutive years, and she has maintained all 12 wins in her last 12 matches, the last two of which have been successfully defended in the featherweights.
Penha was fifth in the UFC Women's Weweight before the tournament, just the winner of Season 18 of "Ultimate Fighter". So before the game, everyone thought that this competition was another performance show for the lioness.
The game began to test each other, and the lioness gave the opponent a powerful low sweep. Then the lioness played very calmly and methodically to continue to suppress the attack, and the lioness who controlled the game in the implementation of the cage suppression showed a very confident smile, as if to tell everyone that she had been performing.
However, the game to the second round, the tall arm length Penha used her own advantages of continuous punching frequently hit the lioness, the lioness did not flinch, but boldly exchanged punches with the other party, and did not completely protect the head, the very light enemy of the lioness again in the change of fists to eat heavy punch body a little shaky, at this time a little dizzy she did not change tactics or drag the other party into the ground, still my own fight, Penha continued to stab the control distance of the front punch and constantly hit the more confident.
When the two sides fought fiercely next to the cage net, Penha grabbed the lioness who had been severely damaged and had not yet fully recovered from the chase, and a hug knocked the lioness to the ground, and then took the back to carry out a naked hanging, the lioness tried her best to resist, but in the second round of 3 minutes and 26 seconds, the lioness helplessly was locked and conceded.
'Honestly, I did everything I could tonight and I trained very hard for this game. The lioness said after the defeat, "Congratulations Penha, she is a warrior, and honestly, not surprising at all." I knew I might get hit hard but kept going and I'll be back soon. ”
After the victory, Peña held her daughter and smiled with the UFC champion's gold belt tied around her waist. With this victory, she became the fifth women's welterweight champion in UFC history.