{"id":243997,"date":"2017-07-09T06:10:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-09T13:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=243997"},"modified":"2017-07-09T06:10:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T13:10:21","slug":"dana-white-rips-amanda-nunes-suggests-champs-ufc-213-withdrawal-mostly-mental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-rips-amanda-nunes-suggests-champs-ufc-213-withdrawal-mostly-mental\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White rips Amanda Nunes, suggests champ&#8217;s UFC 213 withdrawal was mostly mental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If things had gone according to the original plan, UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes would have taken on dangerous challenger Valentina Shevchenko in the main event of UFC 213 last night. Regrettably, reports began surfacing yesterday afternoon that <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/amanda-nunes\/amanda-nunes-reportedly-hospitalized-ufc-213-main-event-jeopardy\/\">Nunes had been hospitalized<\/a> and that she would not be competing on the card.<\/p>\n<p>While this was undeniably disappointing news, initial concern surrounded Nunes&#8217; wellbeing. Luckily, we quickly learned that the champion had been released from hospital with a clean bill of health.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, in fact, Nunes had apparently been cleared to fight by doctors, but apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/amanda-nunes\/amanda-nunes-issues-first-statement-following-removal-ufc-213\/\">elected not to compete anyway<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This fact did not go over with UFC President Dana White, who damned the bantamweight champion for her refusal to fight.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cAfter the [early] weigh-ins she made weight. Leading up to the ceremonial weigh ins I got a call she wasn\u2019t feeling well,&#8221; White said at the UFC 213 post-fight press conference (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Dana-White-Believes-Amanda-Nunes-Withdrawal-from-UFC-213-Was-90-Percent-Mental-124517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sherdog.com<\/a>). \u00a0&#8220;It was questionable whether she was going to show up. She does them, she was good. This morning, I hear she\u2019s not feeling well again and she\u2019s probably not gonna fight. I asked the doctor\u2019s what\u2019s wrong, she was medically cleared, they found nothing wrong with her. She just didn\u2019t feel well.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou can\u2019t make anybody fight,\u201d he continued. \u201cShe said, \u2018I don\u2019t feel right.\u2019 I think it was 90 percent mental and 10 percent physical. A lot of times we\u2019ve had fighters who don\u2019t feel right and other times they\u2019re outright sick. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever had a situation like today where she was physically capable of fighting.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>White then suggested that this title fight might be rescheduled for UFC 215, which goes down this September in Edmonton. Apparently, however, he doesn&#8217;t trust Nunes with the headlining spot anymore.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI know that both camps were offered Edmonton,\u201d White said. \u201cI don\u2019t know where we are.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI won\u2019t do that again,\u201d he said. \u201cI won\u2019t main event that title again.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think of these comments from Dana White? Is he wrong to throw Amanda Nunes under the bus like this?<\/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 7\/9\/2017. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If things had gone according to the original plan, UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes would have taken on dangerous challenger Valentina Shevchenko in the main event of UFC 213 last night. Regrettably, reports began surfacing yesterday afternoon that Nunes had been hospitalized and that she would not be competing on the card. 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