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What Nunes Needs to Do To Keep The Title

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It will be the last fight of the year, the return of Ronda Rousey, and the first time Amanda Nunes defends her Bantamweight title. That should be reason enough to watch UFC 207, but what if it's also the last time Rousey takes a walk to the octagon? Amanda Nunes has a chance to prove that it is in fact "her time" to reign as Bantamweight Champion. With very little film on how to defeat Rousey she will have to study the UFC 193 tape, lucky for her it is all she will need. Holly Holm showed the world how to avoid the arm-bar, all she did was... avoid the arm-bar. But how did she do it? Its simple, she did not allow Rousey to tie her up in a clinch. She kept her distance and hit Rousey harder than she's ever been hit. Rosuey is not able to take many punches and is quick to go for muay thai clinch, right into her Judo, and into the arm-bar. That's what Nunes' needs to avoid. Rousey will do what she is so used to doing, she will charge at Nunes and try to

New Featherweight Champion?

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There is a new featherweight champion and it's the old interim champion but the interim title will be on the line at UFC 206.....confused yet? Let's break it down. It seems the UFC kept to their word and have forced Conor Mcgregor to relinquish the featherweight title. Since he never defended the title, Jose Aldo who became the interim champion after defeating Frankie Edgar, has become the new Featherweight Champion. It's like the 13 second fight it never happened (but we all know it did). But what do we need another interim champion? Jose Aldo said he wanted to fight for the Featherweight title or he wanted to be released by the UFC. Because of this, it's safe to say he is not in fighting shape and anywhere near able to make the difficult weight cut to 145 lbs. I call it the "McGregor Effect", no one knew what was going to happen with the division so they didn't know what to get ready for. So what was the UFC to do but to crown a new Int