{"id":285905,"date":"2018-09-25T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=285905"},"modified":"2018-09-25T07:03:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T14:03:54","slug":"miesha-tate-believes-amanda-nunes-has-the-power-to-ko-cris-cyborg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/amanda-nunes\/miesha-tate-believes-amanda-nunes-has-the-power-to-ko-cris-cyborg\/","title":{"rendered":"Miesha Tate believes Amanda Nunes has the power to KO Cris Cyborg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On December 29, in the main event of UFC 232, UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes will move up to the 145-pound featherweight division to battle UFC women&#8217;s featherweight champion <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/cris-cyborg\/\">Cris Cyborg.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the eyes of former UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate, who lost to Nunes in a July, 2016 title fight, Cyborg\u00a0<em>should<\/em> win this fight. That being said, Tate feels Nunes has the kind of power to make this fight interesting. In fact, she believes Nunes has enough firepower to put Cyborg down if she connects properly.<\/p>\n<p id=\"YKxoWV\">\u201cI obviously think Cyborg is going to win, she is the woman to beat and until I see something largely monumental going against Cyborg, she is pretty much going to be the one I always pick against any other woman on this planet,&#8221; Miesha Tate said of this Amanda Nunes vs. Cris Cyborg fight on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLn3nHXu50t5zSvQkgOkPxHr05uLn24xg8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Ariel Helwani&#8217;s MMA Show<\/a> (transcript via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2018\/9\/24\/17762178\/ufc-232-miesha-tate-amanda-nunes-has-power-knock-out-cris-cyborg-hits-like-a-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAMania<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p id=\"VkCkky\">\u201cThat being said, Amanda hits like a man,&#8221; Tate continued. &#8220;I can say first-hand that she hits so hard. And it looks effortless, she is very natural at it. She\u2019s got this falcon-like wingspan, it\u2019s very long. Cyborg may be surprised by how hard she gets hit by Amanda. I don\u2019t believe Cyborg is going to want to walk through the punches like she does with every other female she\u2019s ever fought. You\u2019re not going to want to do that against Amanda. She might be smaller than you, but she packs one hell of a punch and she could hurt Cyborg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"iE5wDg\">\u201cShe has the power to knock Cyborg out, I do believe that. I don\u2019t think it will happen this fight, but if Cyborg doesn\u2019t actually come in with a strategy and just wants to bully Amanda, she might get hurt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do you think Amanda Nunes can end Cyborg&#8217;s incredible win-streak with one big punch?<\/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 9\/25\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 29, in the main event of UFC 232, UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes will move up to the 145-pound featherweight division to battle UFC women&#8217;s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg. 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