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Amanda Nunes and Kayla Harrison were once teammates at American Top Team. However, 'The Lioness' made the difficult decision to part ways with her old coaches in favor of a new team due to Harrison's arrival, a decision she recounted following UFC 316.
Nunes and Harrison are set to lock horns over the women's bantamweight title at unknown date. However, Nunes has known that she and Harrison have been on a collision course for quite some time now. So, when Jon Anik and Brett Okamoto asked if she left the team due to Harrison's presence, Nunes said:
"Yes, I did, because she trained with my coach. When she got there, she started training with my coach, Mike Brown, and so everybody and I knew this fight would happen one day. And if I was there now, that would be a problem, a huge problem for Dan [Lambert]."
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Check out Amanda Nunes' comments below (2:19):
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Ultimately, Nunes' decision to leave American Top Team in favor of a smaller, more personalized team paid dividends. Under the guidance of new coaches, she recaptured her women's bantamweight title in a rematch against Julianna Peña at UFC 277, dominating her from start to finish.
Nunes followed that win up by dominating Irene Aldana at UFC 289, successfully defending her 135-pound throne. Thereafter, she retired from MMA, but was unable to withstand the competitive itch growing the longer her absence stretched. Now, Nunes is back and on a mission for championship gold.
Amanda Nunes is set to face Kayla Harrison
As many had predicted, Kayla Harrison ran through Julianna Peña in the UFC 316 co-main event, outstriking and outwrestling her en route to a second-round submission via kimura. It crowned her the new women's bantamweight champion and set up a blockbuster bout with the great Amanda Nunes.
Check out the face-off between Amanda Nunes and Kayla Harrison:
In her post-fight interview, Harrison called Nunes into the cage, where the two women took part in an impromptu face-off. The fight is the biggest WMMA contest that the UFC, or any promotion, can book in 2025, and a win would do wonders for both women's legacies, especially Harrison's.
