{"id":391159,"date":"2022-06-06T16:17:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T16:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=391159"},"modified":"2022-06-06T16:17:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T16:17:50","slug":"wasnt-the-amanda-nunes-were-used-to-watching-jessica-andrade-rubbishes-julianna-penas-performance-against-amanda-nunes-favors-her-own-odds-to-beat-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wasnt-the-amanda-nunes-were-used-to-watching-jessica-andrade-rubbishes-julianna-penas-performance-against-amanda-nunes-favors-her-own-odds-to-beat-her\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Wasn\u2019t the Amanda Nunes We\u2019re Used to Watching&#8217;- Jessica Andrade Rubbishes Julianna Pe\u00f1a&#8217;s Performance Against Amanda Nunes, Favors Her Own Odds to Beat Her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC title challenger Jessica Andrade talked about an upcoming match-up that is sure to grab headlines in women\u2019s MMA. On a recent iteration of MMA Fighting\u2019s Portuguese podcast, The Brazilian shared her candid thoughts on the current 135-pound women\u2019s champion.<\/p>\n<p>According to Andrade, Julianna Pe\u00f1a is an easy fight for her when pitted against some of the big names she\u2019s faced in the division. \u2018Bate Estaca\u2019 has gone toe-to-toe against top fighters in three different weight classes, including Valentina Shevchenko, Rose Namajunas, and Zhang Weili, to name a few.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-D1PZFFFU98\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/the-last-ufc-fighter-to-beat-charles-oliveira-names-a-bigger-threat-to-his-title-reign-than-islam-makhachev\/\">The Last UFC Fighter to Beat Charles Oliveira Names a Bigger Threat to His Title Reign Than Islam Makhachev<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Jessica Andrade doesn\u2019t make much of Julianna Pe\u00f1a\u2019s skill set<\/h2>\n<p>Per Andrade, Pe\u00f1a\u2019s impressive outing against Nunes to capture the belt was a product of Nunes failing to show up on fight day. Jessica Andrade wasn\u2019t impressed with the way the \u2018Venezuelan Vixen\u2019 went about submitting Nunes and felt that Nunes\u2019 weight cut affected her.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn theory, it\u2019s easier to fight Julianna, especially for what she\u2019s showed against Amanda,\u201d Andrade said. \u201cI really think it was more of Amanda [losing than Pe\u00f1a winning], because Amanda is way better than what she\u2019s showed. She was submitted with no hooks in, you could see the pressure wasn\u2019t too much.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-391160 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/pen-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/pen-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/pen-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/pen-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/pen-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/pen-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/pen-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBut I don\u2019t know how Amanda\u2019s weight cut was \u2014 it was two years since her last fight [at bantamweight], so something might have affected and led to that. She got tired so quickly. It wasn\u2019t the Amanda we\u2019re used to watching. Maybe she will show the Amanda we know in this rematch and get the belt back.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Jessica Andrade believes that a smooth weight cut is most certainly the way to go for Amanda Nunes in a rematch, and she also favors her own chances against the bantamweight champion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PJ6CcoLtl50\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf that doesn\u2019t happen, I really think it\u2019s easier to fight Julianna than the girls at 125 and 115. I hope we get the opportunity to fight one day and it\u2019s for the belt. I think it\u2019s the easier matchup, no doubt.&#8221;<\/em> [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2022\/6\/5\/23151700\/jessica-andrade-champion-julianna-pena-easier-to-beat-than-ufc-strawweights-flyweights\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Fighting.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Julianna Pe\u00f1a certainly has her work cut out for her, as she\u2019s sure to collide against a highly motivated opponent in Nunes. Only time will tell if Pe\u00f1a\u2019s words ring true once the rematch is done and dusted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC title challenger Jessica Andrade talked about an upcoming match-up that is sure to grab headlines in women\u2019s MMA. On a recent iteration of MMA Fighting\u2019s Portuguese podcast, The Brazilian shared her candid thoughts on the current 135-pound women\u2019s champion. According to Andrade, Julianna Pe\u00f1a is an easy fight for her when pitted against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":391165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}