{"id":393839,"date":"2022-06-24T14:38:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=393839"},"modified":"2022-06-24T14:38:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T14:38:30","slug":"nunes-threw-everything-she-had-at-pena-michelle-waterson-believes-amanda-nunes-reached-her-breaking-point-against-julianna-pena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/nunes-threw-everything-she-had-at-pena-michelle-waterson-believes-amanda-nunes-reached-her-breaking-point-against-julianna-pena\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Nunes Threw Everything She Had at Pena&#8217;- Michelle Waterson Believes Amanda Nunes Reached Her &#8216;Breaking Point&#8217; Against Julianna Pena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive with Middleeasy.com, Michelle Waterson weighed in on the upcoming women\u2019s title fight that piqued everyone\u2019s interest. Amanda Nunes will rematch Julianna Pena after \u2018The Venezuelan Vixen\u2019 shocked the world and secured the victory over Nunes via RNC submission.<\/p>\n<p>Amanda Nunes experienced major fatigue in the fight and her pace took a nosedive as the fight entered the second round. This led to Pena securing the submission without even sinking hooks in.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/chael-sonnen-believes-conor-mcgregors-next-fight-might-be-his-last-as-talks-of-rematch-with-floyd-mayweather-loom-large\/\">Chael Sonnen Believes Conor McGregor\u2019s Next Fight Might Be His Last as Talks of Rematch With Floyd Mayweather Loom Large<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Michelle Waterson Believes Julianna Pena pushed Amanda Nunes to her breaking point<\/h2>\n<p>\u2018The Karate Hottie\u2019 is of the <a href=\"https:\/\/middleeasy.com\/mma-news\/michelle-waterson-pena-nunes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">belief<\/a> that Julianna Pena\u2019s pace surprised Amanda Nunes to the point where she drastically slowed down. Per Waterson, Nunes\u2019 confidence was majorly impacted when she saw that none of her offensive tactics were paying dividends as the fight went on.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-391664 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/ju-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/ju-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/ju-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/ju-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/ju-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/ju-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/ju-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt will come down to where Amanda is in her headspace. Yeah, Nunes slowed down but in my opinion, I think that Julianna had to get in her face to slow her down.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSometimes people hit a breaking point and I think what happened was Nunes threw everything she had at Pena, and Pena just took it because she\u2019s a dawg. Then, Nunes was like, \u2018dang, what else do I have?\u2019 Her confidence and all of that started slowing down.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, Michelle Waterson also talked about how it\u2019s hard for her and others to sit at home and break down the fight on an accurate basis. She talked about how the stars must align for a fighter in order to get the victory when it\u2019s all said and done.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-391665 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/NUN-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/NUN-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/NUN-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/NUN-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/NUN-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/NUN-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/NUN-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThat\u2019s a hard thing for all of us spectators to sit back and judge a fight when we don\u2019t know what happened in the camp, we don\u2019t know what\u2019s happened in their personal life , during fight week, during the cut. There\u2019s so many things to secure a win on any given night, that stars absolutely have to be aligned.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Julianna Pena will have the entire MMA community\u2019s attention when she aims to defend her title against the formidable Nunes. If she manages to pull off the win, she will have pushed back against her detractors who have labeled her win as a fluke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an exclusive with Middleeasy.com, Michelle Waterson weighed in on the upcoming women\u2019s title fight that piqued everyone\u2019s interest. Amanda Nunes will rematch Julianna Pena after \u2018The Venezuelan Vixen\u2019 shocked the world and secured the victory over Nunes via RNC submission. Amanda Nunes experienced major fatigue in the fight and her pace took a nosedive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":393841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393839","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\/393839","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=393839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}