{"id":1347,"date":"2023-06-12T13:43:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-12T12:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2023-06-12T18:53:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T17:53:29","slug":"dana-white-reacts-to-amanda-nunes-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/dana-white-reacts-to-amanda-nunes-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White reacts to Amanda Nunes&#8217; retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UFC President Dana White was not surprised when two-time champion Amanda Nunes announced her retirement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tonight, Amanda Nunes (23-5) defended her bantamweight championship belt against Mexican Irene Aldana. The two women faced off in the main event of UFC 289 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the end of the 5 rounds of the fight, Nunes was logically named the winner by unanimous decision of the judges (see the summary here). After the announcement of her victory, the Brazilian took off her gloves and deposited her two championship belts in the center of the Octagon to announce her retirement.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_41252\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JtJecztxHpE?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFirst of all, she was amazing. White said of Nunes during the UFC 289 post-fight press conference. \u201cIt was an incredible performance. She completely suffocated her. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/06\/12\/09\/72029895-12184851-image-a-8_1686556966269.jpg\" alt=\"Julianna Pena's livid live reaction was caught on camera as Amanda Nunes  retired from MMA | Daily Mail Online\" width=\"710\" height=\"935\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UFC president was not surprised by the \u201cLioness\u201d announcement. Indeed, White suspected that the fight against Irene Aldana might be Nunes&#8217; last appearance in the Octagon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_94201\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D0_yDvO_gM0?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not shocked that she retired. White said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been saying for a while that she made a lot of money and her life is a lot different now. That&#8217;s probably what Amanda wants, so I&#8217;m happy for her. \u00bb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWould I like her to stay and make more fights? Absolutely. It&#8217;s amazing to work with her. She is a very good person and a great champion. Obviously, she&#8217;s the greatest female fighter of all time. I would like her to stay. But if she&#8217;s ready to go, you have to be happy for her. \u201c, he concluded.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"dkQrICGe94\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/2023\/06\/11\/amanda-nunes-had-just-completely-dominated-irene-aldana-at-ufc-289-toward-yet-another-bantamweight-world-championship-defense\/\">Amanda Nunes had just completely dominated Irene Aldana at UFC 289 toward yet another bantamweight world championship defense.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Amanda Nunes had just completely dominated Irene Aldana at UFC 289 toward yet another bantamweight world championship defense.&#8221; &#8212; MMA MAG\" src=\"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/2023\/06\/11\/amanda-nunes-had-just-completely-dominated-irene-aldana-at-ufc-289-toward-yet-another-bantamweight-world-championship-defense\/embed\/#?secret=SpE9E5DMVc#?secret=dkQrICGe94\" data-secret=\"dkQrICGe94\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC President Dana White was not surprised when two-time champion Amanda Nunes announced her retirement. Tonight, Amanda Nunes (23-5) defended her bantamweight championship belt against Mexican Irene Aldana. The two women faced off in the main event of UFC 289 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, Canada. At the end of the 5 rounds of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,21],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1347","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"category-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmamag.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}