{"id":335113,"date":"2019-12-12T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T18:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=335113"},"modified":"2019-12-12T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T18:44:38","slug":"amanda-nunes-warns-claressa-shields-amid-talk-of-ufc-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/amanda-nunes-warns-claressa-shields-amid-talk-of-ufc-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Amanda Nunes warns Claressa Shields amid talk of UFC move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s recently been renewed discussion about a potential MMA showdown between two-division UFC champion Amanda Nunes and boxing champion Claressa Shields \u2014 thanks in large part to the comments of Dana White.<\/p>\n<p id=\"lzrdtt\">\u201cClaressa Shields is coming [to UFC 245],\u201d White told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_9bO9AUGrcQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BT Sport<\/a> ahead of Nunes&#8217; Saturday night bantamweight title fight with challenger Germaine de Randamie (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2019\/12\/11\/21011428\/dana-white-reveals-talks-with-claressa-shields-about-potential-showdown-with-amanda-nunes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cShe\u2019ll be here Saturday to watch the fight. She\u2019s coming to watch the fight, and I will be honest with you, Claressa Shields\u2019 people and I have talked. I don\u2019t know, we\u2019ll see. We\u2019ve talked.<\/p>\n<p id=\"T4dWCH\">\u201cI know they\u2019re both interested in [the fight], too,&#8221; White added. &#8220;We\u2019ll see how this whole thing plays out. We have a lot of respect for her, too, and she\u2019s going to come to the fight and should be fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Shields does make a move to the UFC, she&#8217;ll be a massive underdog against the champion Nunes.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Nunes recently warned her rival to think twice before making the jump.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can get a girl, a low-ranked 135-pound girl, we can put [Shields] in with her, and she won&#8217;t even get past the first round,&#8221; Nunes told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/12\/11\/amanda-nunes-claressa-shields-mma-fight-ufc-crossover\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TMZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nunes added that Shields would immediately have difficulty with the kicks that occur in an MMA fight \u2014 particularly leg kicks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That leg, I would kick the s**t out of it all day long,&#8221; she said of a potential MMA bout with the boxer. &#8220;She would lose that leg.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for Amanda Nunes moving to the boxing ring to challenge Claressa Shields? Well, that sounds unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not a boxer, I&#8217;m an MMA fighter,&#8221; Nunes said. &#8220;If I wanted to be a boxer, I would be one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Does an MMA fight between Amanda Nunes and Claressa Shields interest you? How do you think this fight would go?<\/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 12\/12\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s recently been renewed discussion about a potential MMA showdown between two-division UFC champion Amanda Nunes and boxing champion Claressa Shields \u2014 thanks in large part to the comments of Dana White. \u201cClaressa Shields is coming [to UFC 245],\u201d White told BT Sport ahead of Nunes&#8217; Saturday night bantamweight title fight with challenger Germaine de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":318175,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10274,52074,10112,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO 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