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Finish of an period? Dana White admits UFC’s girls’s featherweight division will PROBABLY NOT survive if Amanda Nunes retires (VIDEO)
It could appear weird, however the UFC’s girls’s featherweights must be begging all-conquering champion Amanda Nunes NOT to retire after Dana White hinted the division could not survive if she hangs up her gloves.
Chatting with reporters forward of UFC Vegas three on the UFC Apex, White chatted about a variety of subjects, however the one that will have alarmed the handful of 145-pound feminine fighters on the roster got here when White was requested about Nunes’ present state of affairs, and what would possibly occur to the division if she referred to as it quits.
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“I hope she would not,” admitted White, who joked earlier within the week that he would “kill” the Brazilian two-division champion if she determined to stroll away from the UFC on the peak of her fame.
“She’s one in every of my favourite folks ever.”
Nunes completely dominated former Invicta FC champion Felicia Spencer in her most up-to-date title defence as she additional cemented her dominance of the UFC’s heaviest feminine weight class with a landslide determination victory over the Canadian contender.
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It was a efficiency that confirmed that the hole between Nunes and the remainder of the UFC’s featherweights is a big chasm, and White admitted that the longer term appeared unsure for the division if Nunes opted to stroll away from the game now.
“After a efficiency like that I might hate to suppose that she’d need to retire,” he mentioned.
“But when that is true and that is the place she’s at proper now, then she most likely ought to.”
That led a reporter to ask White if there would nonetheless be a featherweight division if she retired, leaving White to challenge a reply that should depart the remainder of the UFC’s feminine featherweights greater than a bit of involved.
“In all probability not,” he acknowledged.
“I actually simply advised the (matchmakers) the opposite day to construct that division up. Let’s begin signing ladies, begin constructing the division.
“Now the lady’s speaking about retirement, so apparently we gotta get on the identical web page and determine this factor out.”
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