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UFC President Dana White doubts the women’s featherweight division would survive if it reigning champion Amanda Nunes retires.<\/p>\n

Nunes, who also holds the UFC women’s bantamweight belt, is widely regarded as the best female fighter of all time. Shortly after her recent title defense against Felicia Spencer, she divulged that she’s considering retirement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAh, I don\u2019t know, I\u2019ve achieved everything I wanted,\u201d Nunes told Esporte Espetacular. \u201cI\u2019m well, I can go on with my life, maybe a [take] new step, maybe find new talents, help some girls there\u2026maybe be a coach, too.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in a moment that I can retire, you know, and I\u2019m in a moment that I can fight. I\u2019m fine. There\u2019s nothing else to be done right now in the division. The Hall of Fame will come, for sure. My life going forward, if I do stop now, the UFC will give me every support I need to continue having my money and work.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Nunes does retire, White is not optimistic the women’s featherweight division will continue.<\/p>\n

\u201cProbably not,\u201d White said, when asked if the division would survive sans Nunes (h\/t MMA Fighting<\/a>).<\/p>\n

While White doesn’t see the featherweight division surviving without Nunes, he’s quite happy with the state of the women’s bantamweight division, and believes that division would continue without its current champion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI literally just told the guys the other day to build that division,\u201d White said of the women’s bantamweight division. \u201cStart signing girls, let\u2019s start building that division, and now my girl\u2019s talking about retirement, so apparently we gotta get on the same page and figure this out.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Nunes] can do whatever she wants to do,\u201d White said. \u201cShe\u2019s the queen. She can do whatever she wants. She\u2019s having a baby, she\u2019s got all these great things going on in her life right now personally and professionally she\u2019s done anything that I\u2019ve ever asked her to do. To go from Ronda Rousey to her, it\u2019s actually been a joy working with the women in that division. I haven\u2019t always seen eye-to-eye with Holly Holm\u2019s people, but Holly Holm is one of the nicest human beings on planet earth. Dealing with that division has been awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although White claims Nunes can do whatever she wants, he admitted that, after watching Nunes’ recent wins over Germaine de Randamie and Felicia Spencer, he hopes she doesn’t retire.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope she doesn\u2019t [retire],\u201d White said. \u201cShe\u2019s one of my favorite people ever and coming off of the performance that she just put on, I think that the beautiful thing was she came out of the de Randamie\u00a0fight and everyone was like, \u2018She looked human,\u2019 this, that, all the critics were all over her. She fought arguably the best female striker of all-time, beat her, and she looked human in that fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen she came out and put a statement on her last performance. She looked incredible and put on an absolute clinic against one of the toughest women that I\u2019ve ever seen in my life. After a performance like that, I would hate to think that she would want to retire, but if that\u2019s true, and that\u2019s where she\u2019s at right now, then she probably should.\u201d<\/p>\n

What do you think the future holds for Amanda Nunes and the women’s featherweight division?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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