{"id":220858,"date":"2017-02-03T05:57:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T13:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=220858"},"modified":"2017-02-03T05:58:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T13:58:16","slug":"amanda-nunes-explains-apologized-ronda-rousey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ronda-rousey\/amanda-nunes-explains-apologized-ronda-rousey\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Nunes explains why she apologized to Ronda Rousey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year, in the main event of UFC 207, UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes cut <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/ronda-rousey\/\">Ronda Rousey<\/a> down <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-results\/video-amanda-nunes-kos-ronda-rousey-at-ufc-207\/\">in a mere 48 seconds<\/a>. It was as brutal as beatings come.<\/p>\n<p>In the buildup to this fight Nunes had been pretty quiet. Though she has proven herself to be more than capable of slinging effective trash talk when the need arises, she was quite civil in the buildup to her fight with Rousey.<\/p>\n<p>After the fight, however, Nunes did let a few criticisms of the former champ go, suggesting she might have been <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/amanda-nunes\/amana-nunes-ronda-rousey-sure-overrated\/\">overrated<\/a> during her dominant heyday. And though none of these comments were particularly vicious, and none generated much in the way of controversy, the champion was later compelled to take to social media <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ronda-rousey\/amanda-nunes-apologizes-to-ronda-rousey-for-post-fight-comments\/\">to issue Rousey an apology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BP8V5wYDQXv\/<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Nunes made this apology, she spoke with the Las Vegas Review-Journal and explained her reasons for doing so.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe apology was because the words that I said,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;I think it was a little bit too much because I was very upset, very mad because how I was promoted [for] the whole thing. I was the champion and I didn\u2019t have the credit I was supposed to have. I feel like everything was about her,\u201d Nunes said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI never fight mad before. That was the only fight that they made me fight mad, upset, and hurt. They hurt me and after the fight I can\u2019t control myself. I say bad words and I know I have a lot of kids that night, a lot of people that didn\u2019t want to hear that bad speech. But I was so upset and so hurt, I can\u2019t hold myself [back]. That\u2019s why I decided to post that after a couple days, a couple weeks after the fight because I was better now. I can hear everything, all the things, and I\u2019ve calm down more but I was very upset with the whole thing.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you think Amanda Nunes was right to apologize to Ronda Rousey? Sound off, PENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 2\/3\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year, in the main event of UFC 207, UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes cut Ronda Rousey down in a mere 48 seconds. It was as brutal as beatings come. In the buildup to this fight Nunes had been pretty quiet. Though she has proven herself to be more than capable of slinging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":217494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10274,10110],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Amanda Nunes explains why she apologized to Ronda Rousey | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After a bit of post-fight trash talk, Amanda Nunes apologized to her recent adversary Ronda Rousey. 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