UFC 245: Amanda Nunes tells Claressa Shields ‘come see me in MMA’ after boxing call-out
- Two-weight UFC champion says ‘if she wants to come to my world, I’ll be here’
- Nunes says she would destroy Shields on the ground and finish her with a jiu-jitsu submission
Amanda Nunes has laughed off Claressa Shields calling her out for a boxing match, saying “come fight me in MMA”.
Two-weight UFC champion Nunes defended her bantamweight title against Germaine de Randamie in Las Vegas on Saturday night, where two-time Olympic boxing champion Shields was watching at the T-Mobile Arena.
“She saw tonight, I don’t think she’s gonna want anything to do with this,” Nunes said at the post-event press conference.
“If she wanna see me, come to my world. I’ll be here. I’m an MMA fighter. She wanna see me, I’m gonna wrestle the s*** out of you, and finish you with a jiu-jitsu submission. We’re gonna see how she’s gonna feel.
“I’m an MMA fighter, why she wanna take me from my sport? If she wanna fight me, come to my world. Doesn’t it make any sense. I respect her as a boxer but I like MMA. I like what I did today. if she can hang for five rounds, come see me.”
Shields had said she wanted a series of fights with Nunes, with one in boxing and one in MMA, but that she wanted six months to prepare how to stuff a takedown if she was to get into the Octagon.
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“Six months to learn how to defend a takedown? Germaine … six years she didn’t even learn how to defend a takedown. You guys saw tonight. Like, don’t even listen to this girl, guys,” added Nunes, who said she would want “more” than a multimillion deal for the boxing match to happen.
UFC president Dana White seemed positive when asked if Shields would fight in the UFC.
“I’ve been talking to everybody in boxing, you want as many of the best people you can get, talking to Clarissa and a lot of people,” he said. “But Clarissa has shown interest in fighting.
“She’s a two-time Olympic gold medallist, and she comes here and sees the press conference and weigh-ins and arena tonight, all these things. Pretty badass. I think everybody wants a taste of this, so we’ll see what happens.”
