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UFC champ-champ Amanda Nunes believes she is the women’s GOAT

LOS ANGELES – At this stage of her carer, Amanda Nunes is comfortable coming right out and saying it: She’s the best fighter ever to set foot in the octagon.

“Yeah, it’s for sure,” Nunes told reporters, including MMA Junkie, at Monday’s UFC 239 media day in downtown Los Angeles. “I am the greatest of all-time. I beat the most dominating woman on the planet. I feel like I deserve it now.”

Most competitors shy away from making such a proclamation, but Nunes (17-4 MMA, 10-1 UFC) has the pedigree to back it up. The current UFC women’s featherweight and bantamweight champion’s victories include Miesha Tate, Ronda Rousey, Valentina Shevchenko, Germaine de Randamie, and the only other person really in the discussion for women’s GOAT, Cris Cyborg. That group accounts for world championships across three different weight classes.

Eventually, Nunes said, the fans told her she’s the best enough that she came around on agreeing with them.

“A lot of people have been saying (it),” Nunes said. “All the things– everybody sends a message for me, a lot of letters at the gym. I have a bunch of letters that I have to send back to the fans. … Every time I sign them, I sit back. Everybody tells me now (I’m the greatest). I have to say I am, because people tell me, everybody tells me. I believe them and now I say I am. I deserve everything that I have in my life.”

Nunes believes her track record in the cage backs up the talk.

“I proved it. I’m the best – I proved it,” Nunes said. “I’ve been doing everything people like to see: knock people out, and submissions, and go in there to fight. Don’t run. Put (on) a show. I feel like the fans like that and they respect me for that. And I feel good – I feel happy when they tell me I’m the best. I’m too happy.”

Meanwhile, in case there’s anyone who still doubts “The Lioness,” she has her opportunity to add yet another impressive name to her resume: Holly Holm, who will attempt to regain the bantamweight title when the duo clashes at UFC 239. Nunes has the self-confidence to believe she’s the GOAT, but that doesn’t mean she’s going to take a competitor like Holm (12-4 MMA, 5-4 UFC) lightly.

“I feel like I am definitely excited for this fight – definitely,” Nunes said. “Definitely excited more to see how my game plan in the cage is going to be. My mind is going to be (fine), because Holly is a great fighter. She moves a lot. She has good boxing, she has good kicks. I have to be on point with my game plan to be able to capitalize and finish the fight.”

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