Nunes considered retiring from the sport, but wasn’t ready to give up her MMA dream. Nunes moved back from Florida to her mother’s house in Atibaia, Brazil, and began working in a petshop to make ends meet. Nunes ended up signing with the UFC shortly after parting ways with ONE, but had to wait two years to make her debut after failing a drug test prior to her octagon debut. “If there’s a Brazilian an Indian or whatever, they will try to favor the Indian,” Nunes said. That stressed me out, but it was a great promotion,” said Nunes, who “loved fighting for ONE” and would have re-signed with the company “if they didn’t favour their guys so much.” By “their guys” Nunes means Asian fighters and athletes who train and represent Evolve MMA, a martial arts team founded by ONE Championship CEO Chatri Sityodtong. The Brazilian strawweight said ONE offered her a new deal, but she ultimately chose to part ways. I was upset.”įourteen months after losing to Lee, Nunes fought out of her contract with a decision victory over Gina Iniong. And they still favored her in every way possible.
She was way over, she couldn’t even fight because it would count as dehydration. ONE isn’t like the UFC, where you can dehydrate. When I saw the first time she was way over, so you can’t fight. “They said she made weight, but no one let me see it. “I put that on my stories that day, that she didn’t make weight,” she added. Anyway… They favored her a lot, they still do, so that happened. I saw there was a chance I’d beat her, but then they didn’t pay me. “I was going to fight because of the 30 percent ,” Nunes said. Lee’s alleged weight miss was never announced, and the champion revealed afterwards she was battling pneumonia days before the event. ONE’s weigh-in procedure isn’t open to media or fans like with other promotions weigh-ins, but the company has began to announce final weight and hydration results over the past few years. The strawweight class, for example, is at 125 pounds rather than 115 pounds. ONE Championship did not immediately respond to MMA Fighting’s request for comment.įighters aren’t allowed to dehydrate under ONE Championship’s weight cutting system, and all divisions are 10 pounds heavier than in other promotions like the UFC and Bellator. I wasn’t obligated to fight but they forced me to fight anyway, even if they didn’t pay me the.
That should have been 30 percent of her purse and they didn’t give it to me. “ didn’t make weight, she was at 58kg (127.8lbs). “They kind of screwed me in my title fight,” Nunes said in an interview with MMA Fighting. Nunes lost via second-round submission, tapping to an anaconda choke, but said Lee should have been stripped of the belt.
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Nunes only had five professional bouts under her belt when she signed with ONE in 2016, defeating one of their top talents in Mei Yamaguchi to secure a shot at strawweight queen Angela Lee. That fight specifically, Nunes said, had controversial layers that never were made public. Istela Nunes will finally make the walk to the octagon on Saturday night, facing fellow Brazilian strawweight Ariane Carnelossi in the preliminary portion of UFC Vegas 40, and brings to the table previous experience as a title contender in ONE Championship.
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