Daniel Cormier TV - Why Amanda Nunes couldn't stay retired: "I can't leave my belt with her!"

Published Jun 9, 2023, 1:04 PM

The GOAT is back to check-in with DC! Amanda Nunes says she's locked in for her main event fight against Irene Aldana at UFC 289. And "The Lioness" sends out a warning to Aldana, letting her know she "will crack" her if she comes out swinging early. Plus, don't miss why Nunes thinks Julianna Peña is "so bad" and was the reason she came back to the UFC to reclaim her belt. #Volume #Herd

All right, guys, So I'm here with the greatest female fight of all time, Amanda newnaz Amanda, once again, thanks for checking in with your boy. How you doing, Champ?

Good?

Good, ready to go excited? Exciting, you know, is Josh amazing? They cannot see myself go away for that.

You know. I was just looking at you and you said you thought about retiring after you lost the belt, but you couldn't imagine leaving it to Juliana.

She's so bad that never would leave my ballot to her at all, No way. So like when I I I arrive at home, like I cannot leave my belt, lose it like that for Juliana. Come on, see this, let's go do j gah, Let's get it ball and then move on.

So, Juliana, did it feel good to like exact that revenge and fighting the way that beautifully? You hurt her so many times literally that that switch in the stand seemed to cause so many issues for her. Did you expect that to be that big of a difference, like, because every time you hit it, you would seem to hurt her so bad.

Yeah, I know that's who we too to be a problem for her, you know, because she's so like crazy one thing like driving forward and then like forget about everything. I knew if had caught the angles like switch, I know she had a lot of trouble with it that and I know when I sweech come back, my power is even more. Yeah, because like I stepped back with my my my strong yeah strong leg. So to come back with her come forward, imagining my power to her her power come together.

He's like, look on Instagram, there's the video of her chasing you on the UFC post day.

She's literally chasing.

She threw like twenty punches and you're like circling, circle, circling, and you just go bam and you knocked it down again.

You should watch it. Yeah. Good, But then she got a title fight.

I I didn't expect her to get a title fight again. Did you expect that it would be her a third time?

Now? Actually, I was training for all done already. Really yeah. I was trained. I I have all my camps set up.

For her, and I have all my training my training partner set up and for all Donna. I was training already without have they call from UFC, you know, and when they called me and talk about Juliana is like the hell, like you expected that, but like if I have to, like I'm going to, but like I really like want to fight somebody, somebody else, you.

Know, tough fight, the Juliana fight or the fight. What do you anticipate being the tougher fight.

I think Aldona definitely, because she she's more technical, you know, she's more precise. She knows what she's doing with her striking. It's not crazy coming forward. And now she knows she's like to knock me out. She knows she has to really connect in the right spot because powers. She's not heavy, but like with the box, she knows how to connection in the right spot. So if I connect to Fro, I can knock her out anywhere I want because my power. So that make her her then is she moved a lot. She knows how to use her richie. She's big, know how to use it. That reach, she can kick, so.

She had a lot.

She can mix it up, you know, so it making her Valdy dangerous.

And also she had a good transition to so if I go to for the double leg, I cannot go with my elbow like that.

I really got a clothing because she had a good transition with her hips going to the floor and then she mounts so.

Exactly and then the floor too.

She had a good Gigi, so actually she have a good jug to coach, and I know she's like ready for trans So it's a completely differdential opponent.

It's very dangers just how I bring it the best of me.

Do you like this better without like that emotional because I remember before the Juliana fight and we were talking. We sat down and we talked, and she she just kind of annoyed you, is what it is, right, And I know she annoyed you initially, but then she annoyed you even worse because she won the first fight. Is it easier for you going into a fight where you don't have those bad vibes towards your opponent?

Yeah, it's better, you know, like he's easy for everybody involving these you know what I mean? And h Jesse to have it like a refrashy or if look at somebody else facy, it's like batter because I don't want to look.

It usually on a face. Again, so that was good.

I can look at her face later on, but like this time, it was pretty good.

You switch, you know, you said she's bigger.

Right, she hasn't fought that orbandam weight for a while. Right, last time she made the actual weight was in twenty twenty, Right, she missweight and then she fought in that catchweight against Macy Shaston. Are you worried about that?

Yeah? No, actually a huge opportunity, like to die DC. Yeah, she's gonna She's gonna make it, you know. Yeah.

I feel like if if I woice her in her coach everybody, it would be like, you know what I mean, let's do it, Let's make it.

So I think she's gonna make it. I know, we know that.

There's one thing that when I look at this matchup, I think about Jermaine Durandomy. Right, that's the last time I felt like you fought a long striker, dangerous anything dangerous, had those types of abilities. You really did rely on the wrestling in that fight. Can I can? I just kind of guess that that would kind of be your purpose to kind of mix more wrestling into the fight this weekend, because of it would seem like that that would be where she would be lacking. Because she's a very good boxer, like you said, very good with a rage. She does not one punch power, but she does nowhere to find her shot. Are you gonna use more wrestle this weekend?

Yeah, so you trained with definitely.

I actually like I'm look for that for my next couple of fights that I have, And I want to like mix my my wrestling.

I want to mix.

Everything that I that I have just to grow as a fighter. Yeah, you'll never know what it was capable until you put out that. You don't let it go, like see what is gonna it's gonna happen. So but I also I'm gonna you know, sue each a lot with my my my, my standing. You know, I'm gonna like put it like a couple things for she can guess and I'm gonna keep too. So it's gonna be fun. You see, I'm so excited, Like I'm as much. I want to like tell you so many things about this match up, Like I got to stand in front of her to really feel what is gonna happen. You know, she might like you know, she might show something else that she didn't even expect, you know.

Oh, like that it's gonna be crazy.

They're right in the wave of that momentum, right watching her teammate win over Valentina right a long rated champion, It can almost make you feel like anything you get is possible.

You could do anything right.

So do you anticipate that she's gonna start fast, because that's one thing that Alexa Grosso did against Valentina. She was able to really control the striking early, and then Valentina started to make mistakes like do you expect do you expect Irene to start early to try to really impose herself on you, to kind of show hey, I'm not Ryan Clark always says this, He goes, this guy's like got the biggest crush on he loves you. It's crazy because even makes me feel like I'm hating on you. He's like so one sided and it feels like I'm hating on you. But he always says it always feels like a foregone conclusion when you fight, because he feels like these women are beat before you, guys step into the octagon. Do you think that she comes out fast to just show hey, I'm here, I'm not afraid, because I think that does matter when you fight someone that's as dominants you've.

Been, you know, imagine he got hit with just hate them fresh. No, I know if she run out to me, if I landed my fresh bunch, it's gonna be like at the end, I don't think she's gonna really fresh running and then try to like push the paces in the beginning, because I'm even powerful when i'm frashy. So if she do that, it's gonna be awesome because they're gonna be already to crack her out and go away with my belts.

But I don't see that happen.

But if I'm ready for she's a technical, you know she's gonna move, She's gonna find her way. She likes gonna switch couple of kicks here and that. But you know, I even like expect she might like use the cage she cleans a little bit, try to like drain me a little bit.

You know.

So you've shown that that's that's a myth, right, that's getting tired?

Is that not a myth? Like you've shown that you can fight twenty five minutes? Yeah? Many times? Might many times many times.

So I know at this point I know how to manage my guys thinks and moving forward in the in the round. So I feel like it's gonna be a puzzle. You know, just fight, It's gonna be good. That came a wait for that.

Just this water comes off.

The best of me when I fight somebody that is dangerous, you know. Yeah, this is where shining in those moments when I feel traded, I do like to walk in that cage and then like, Okay, I'm gonna it's gonna be okay for me. So I do like to feel what I feel right now, you know, be traed. You know, I need to go to the through the junk. So I know I have a lot of dangerous place out there. So I'm a lion in GC. Yeah, so I'm ready to hunt.

You know.

You know what I love about the big fights that I start to have these great conversations outside of the sport. It's not just with the people that I work with, it's with my friends and we start to talk about Aman the new nes and these guys are a man of news. Has that camp where she's only by herself? Now, I asked this question, this is one of the things. Who's the person in your camp that can tell you you're you write all the checks, Amanda, you are the champion. Who's that person that tells you when you're tired. Round five, we gotta do more. Who's that person that can tell you that? Because we need that, especially when you become the best, right, everybody is a yes man. Who's that person in your camp that goes to a man and goes, it ain't enough, that ain't gonna get it done. We gotta do more. And you respect them enough to do that.

Nina is there one. So she's the coach's.

Even yeah, she's like really really be able to to tell me what I'm supposed to joy stee.

And it still even if.

I'm tired, she tells me things that I can do, like to really save you, like a couple of moments and then and then get it like refresh to start over. So and I have like a couple of moments in my fight against Juliana. I think one that I remember the most, like she looked at me, like timorrow you're gonna go home.

You tell about yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm good.

If I always tired in that moment, just that little thing that you know that would have made me feel good.

You even need to tell me, like you gotta push it here and just like delivering the right war in the right in that moment that moments.

Like two more rounds, you're gonna bring bring your bout home again.

And that comes from that long relationship from in the gym. Obviously you guys at home, but there is that. I was always I was kind of wondering that, right. We had this big round table where it was like who is that, Like, who's that person that can go to man the person that's gonna ultimately write their checks and tell her today's training with ship that ain't gonna get it done?

Yeah? And you yeah, and you about the honesty with me.

We always honestly with each other because I feel like if you don't do that, you know, evolve as a fighting Yeah, you know, if I don't have a good a good spy, tell me today. I don't know what it was, but like you look at the tired you you did a lot of mistakes, like see what what it is and we see it down way there we plan the next day and and to see.

What a voice making me as for that spot.

So in then if you was their congition, so like got their condition today to see how you're.

Gonna you're gonna you're gonna better training better.

So so we always like look at those things because it's not be consistent everything you wants. You gotta see like, okay, today you always die. But like obviously your body is not a machine. You yeah, you you're not gonna be Maybe you need a little rest. You train in the morning, rash for the rest of the day, and let's play like that. I see how you feed better to move on and apply is the little injury that we get. He and that like and then we have to walk around with those two so and Nina is the one.

Like to be able to really see. She knows when the moments that.

Like I really did so much that I need like something pull back and she tells me what to do. And also we have a Roger, you know, we have like a crew. That's that's really like being this business for so long Rogers, Like I work with a Roger back in America, top team, so we are in.

A good pay page. Everybody together.

So we we evolve in DC because if we get stuck.

You know, these young fighters, these girls all like everybody's doing this exactly exactly.

So this is what I don't want to do because I know I can be created. I know I can be better. You know, I know it can be powerful. So I just need to like believe in and do the right thing. Because a couple of years ago and May it was one thing DJ fast change so fast it's the same. So you cannot keep it the same schedule that you have when you were starting.

Now you gotta play with your.

Sc You gotta change if you spy since you started, like Tuesday and Wednesday, you gotta change a little bit. Why have to be forever like that? You gotta do Monday when you fresh, like like I do. I enjoy my weekend and I spy in the money. So and then I started, Okay, I'm gonna spy now Friday. So I play with my training like that because I enjoy it to do this too. It's not only like focusing like oh my god, you have to train hard and like.

Do these have to be like that? Now?

I mix it up, you know. I make my job to enjoy it. Make you enjoy it because you know how hard it is for so long on most seven years holding my belts, that's crazy, crazy.

Seven years old in the belt, it's crazy.

And for get me, like even excited, I gotta do something else, you know.

That's why I make some some change.

I joged to me some change. You know now that it's a medical top gym. No boys, a Grady gym for me, definitely, woys.

I make it. I make a lot of history that.

But on one point in my life I needed to go, you know, I needed to go in my own to see what I'm capable of in my own.

Yeah, Amanda, you and I were just kind of talking off. Everybody talks about retirement. You got a new baby coming, congratulations, that's good.

I like, follow you. Yeah, I got you.

Still got some work to do, but keep Goingamp like, uh new baby, champion for seven years. Don't leave, Champ, Don't let me keep asking you about retirement. Make it feel like you gotta walk out the door. I hate that everybody looks hold on Aldo, like why can't.

We just enjoy enjoy the right? Because when when you gone, then people like give me one more.

And the way you come back and say, like, now you guys want to come back and understand.

It, That's what I'm saying. Confusing.

You're not on the way out.

Nah No, No, you know I got I lighted that open.

You know, I got a feel the moment, you know, I have a new baby coming, so I'm so excited for that. And I just have so much fun you see now, and I can have my family around, I can play my gym and make like a space up Stays. That's like a playgrounding for Reagan. So when I finish my training.

I go upstairs, I can risk, I can eat that. I have like all set up to it's a full house up Stays.

Yeah, I training, play with her, drop her off in school, go.

Back training, resting, and my life is all set up like that, is it. I'm enjoying.

You know, you're making too much money, making too much money. She got a house in Florida, she got a house in her gym, she got her Jim, a man that knew that she's making way too much money.

Guys.

This weekend, the greatest female fighter of all time once again puts her championship on the line from Vancouver, Canada at UFC two eighty nine.

Make sure you check out the.

Champerman the news that she takes on Irena Aldonne Aldona trying to defend her championship again. Champ, thanks for checking in with me. I appreciate as always, guys. Until next time, Peace,