Former UFC double-champion teases return ahead of UFC 314

Former two-division Champion Amanda Nunes was seen within the entrance row of the presser for UFC 316, which sees ladies’s bantamweight champion Julianna Peña battle Kayla Harrison on June 7.

Even with Nunes’ retirement, UFC CEO Dana White predicted Nunes would return to MMA after strolling away from the game in June 2023.

Each Harrison and Peña appeared right down to battle Nunes for her their respective subsequent fights. Whether or not Nunes decides to come back again stays to be seen, however it’s clear the intrigue for Nunes to return is there, even when it was only a easy head nod.

Nunes and Peña fought twice – at UFC 269 and UFC 277. Each break up their respective fights, however sadly, the trilogy by no means panned out.

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“Here’s the thing that really chaps my a**,” Peña mentioned on The MMA Hour last January.” “When I was at her last fight, I was booing because she was going into retirement and I was like, ‘Don’t go into retirement. We have literally the biggest fight in women’s history, a trilogy that’s never been done before. What are you doing saying you’re going to retire? What a joke.’”

“It warrants a boo, because she’s over there telling Megan Olivi that she’s coming out of retirement. So I was right, and it was ‘Mystic Peña’ once again. Like, they were going to get mad at me and all her fans are upset at me. ‘Why would you boo her? How dare you?’ But it’s like, how dare she? How dare she say that she’s retiring and then one women’s fight later now she’s saying she’s coming back. Get out of here.”

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For Harrison, it would finally reinvigorate a PFL-UFC rivalry if they were to fight to determine the best female fighter in the world, regardless of who that might be against. 

For now, solely time will inform.

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