{"id":249043,"date":"2017-09-12T07:46:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T14:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=249043"},"modified":"2017-09-12T07:46:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T14:46:13","slug":"bantamweight-contender-raquel-pennington-shares-scorecard-nunes-vs-shevchenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/raquel-pennington\/bantamweight-contender-raquel-pennington-shares-scorecard-nunes-vs-shevchenko\/","title":{"rendered":"Bantamweight contender Raquel Pennington shares her scorecard for Nunes vs. Shevchenko"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend, in the main event of UFC 215, women’s bantamweight champ Amanda Nunes stepped into the Octagon to defend her title against dangerous challenger Valentina Shevchenko. The bout was a rematch of a close 2016 fight, and just like that initial 2016 fight, it was incredibly competitive.<\/p>\n

In the end, the judges gave the fight to Nunes by split decision. Not everyone, however, agreed with the decision. Many members of the MMA community<\/a> \u2013 and Shevchenko herself \u2013 were quick to call the fight a robbery.<\/p>\n

Yet in the opinion of top bantamweight contender Raquel Pennington, who could well be the next woman in line for Nunes, the judges got it right. Pennington shared her thoughts on the fight on the latest edition of The MMA Hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was a close fight but I would have to give it to Amanda, It went the way it was supposed to go, I guess. I don\u2019t feel like either one of them went out there and did anything,\u201d Pennington said on the show (h\/t MMAMania.com<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe highlights made the fight look a lot more exciting than what it really was.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t impressed with either one of them. Their first fight was a lot different and if they had two more rounds (in first fight) Valentina could\u2019ve won that fight. I expected a lot more of a performance on both ends and it just seemed that they were waiting for each other to react.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"Amanda<\/p>\n

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\u201cAmanda didn\u2019t want to react, she stayed in front, though, but Valentina didn\u2019t really react. I figured with the close fight of before that Valentina would come out and put on a big performance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n