That’s not the only reason she’s doing this.
exactly what I was thinking
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“Do we need to make anything of this? I don’t know. That’s how I have to word this to you guys. I am speaking way out of school and I have no more information. What I just quoted for you was the headline at BJPENN.com: ‘Amanda Nunes leaves longtime gym of ATT’, which stands for American Top Team, ‘to pursue her own gym endeavor.’” Sonnen said. “End quote. I have no other info. So I don’t want to influence you guys because my comments are based on the headline of an article that I haven’t even read yet. But, when an athlete gets beat, we see this all the time where they throw the baby out with bath water. It wasn’t their fault it was someone else’s.”
Amanda Nunes (21-5 MMA) of course suffered a shocking submission loss to Julianna Pena (11-4 MMA) at last month’s UFC 269 event at T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, surrendering her bantamweight world title in the process.
Chael Sonnen continued to discuss Nunes’ departure from ATT:
“It wasn’t my fault, I need a new start. Now is any of this going on here? No, not that I have evidence of. But it does make me beg one question and I only have one. Had she won the fight (with Pena) was she going to leave American Top Team anyway? If I had the answer to that, then everything that I surmise is now true. But I don’t have the answer tot that. We have to look into it a little bit. It is very peculiar though. When you go to open your own gym, you’re looking to expand your business and build your empire. So you have something to retire on. But if you’re Amanda Nunes and your pockets are lined. She’s still the champion of the world. She’s just got one belt instead of two. Her next fight is still going to be a world championship fight. She’s just going to be the contender instead of the defender.”
Chael Sonnen concluded:
“Amanda Nunes does not need your $100 per month sign up fee. So what is she doing? I don’t know. But is she leaving that gym because she feels as though her preparation for the last fight (with Pena) was not her fault and somebody else’s? I don’t like it when somebody leaves the gym. I don’t. So business-wise, this is a peculiar situation, which leads me to believe that this is personal. That she feels something happened or she was neglected.”
Nunes is so gross…
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A camp for just her, not 20+ other ufc fighters
Shogun used to do it
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Well in the end it turned out well for Glover… Amanda just retire, enjoy your money and your wife juice box.
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TBH…that sums up Glover’s gym pretty much. Of course, there are some high level fighters there and brought in for camp…but mainly it’s a small gym in Connecticut with local amateur fighters.
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I remember after she lost and they asked about a rematch the only thing she said was “I need to get my shit together” or something along those lines. Which makes it sound like either the camp was bad or she was planning on leaving anyway
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“To see her progress is amazing. To see her progress under American Top Team, my same gym, it’s like wow! I never worked out with her or sparred or anything but to some extent, the journey that she had was like shared with me. It just definitely hurts not to have her there I think.” Masvidal said (h/t WMMARankings) . “But man, I’m just always wishing the best for her. She’s going to do her own thing….Obviously, it hurts and obviously, I want her to stay at American Top Team and I think we all do, we all love her. So it’s like a… It’s a devastating blow.”
Is that his own whiskey? I know he owns some.
Perhaps she wants to capitalize on her notoriety while it’s at it’s apogee rather than on the down slide in a few years.
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Yeah, training with Chute Box seems like a camp for just him…
Be seriously, I think it might be a lot of stress etc to get a whole new gym going, all the logistics etc. She should have went to a Trever Wittman, or Where Colby is. Worry about nothing but training
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not sure
How’s he in the same gym with the womens GOAT as a top 5 fighter and never sparred with her? That seems odd, do they shelter her from anyone a couple weights bigger?
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