Brazilian UFC women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg fights Brazilian UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amana Nunes at UFC 232 on December 29, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The trash talk has now begun in earnest.
‘Creonte’ is a Brazilian word that means traitor, said Justino to Amy Kaplan for FanSided. I think it’s embarrassing that the UFC made Amanda the first female Brazilian champion and instead of representing Brazil when she fights, she calls herself American Top Team. She disrespects Brazilian MMA fans every time she walks into the cage as a part of American Top Team.
This is the same gym as Colby Covington. He disrespected Brazil so badly that the UFC was worried they didn’t have enough security to keep him safe and had to move his fight against [Rafael dos Anjos] to the USA instead of Brazil.
Yet Nunes goes into the gym every day to train alongside Colby Covington and even shares the same coaches. Where I’m from in Brazil this would never happen. Imagine Chael Sonnen walking into Chute Boxe and training with Wanderlei Silva, Anderson Silva, or any of the coaches. Do you think they would have let him train after all the things he said about Brazil? No. They would have defended Brazil’s honor. Amanda doesn’t have that same respect for Brazil.
When she called me out last year at first I didn’t want to fight her. I wanted to see all the women divisions run by the Brazilians. Myself, Amanda, [Jessica] Andrade, we could have all been champions and I thought it would bring pride back to all of Brazil. But Nunes is from a Team of Creontes. At American Top Team it is normal for teammates to fight each other. She called me out last year but then wanted a year before we can fight. When I fight her Dec. 29 it will be for everyone in Brazil, and it will be to teach Nunes a lesson about respect.
Nunes is telling everyone if she beats me she is the greatest of all time, but does she think Everyone forgot about her four losses? She quit on herself against [Cat] Zingano. Everyone knows Amanda doesn’t want to fight Cat again. To be the greatest of all time you can’t be afraid of fighting someone you’ve already lost to. I’ve asked for a rematch against Erica Paes many times but she won’t give me one. I still want another Muay Thai fight against Jorina Baars, but the moment you say Cat’s name to Nunes she gets quiet as a mouse.
Them’s fighting words.
