Nina Ansaroff had her impressive four-fight winning streak snapped by Tatiana Suarez at UFC 238 in June, but her girlfriend Amanda Nunes revealed on Tuesday that the strawweight talent wasn’t 100-percent fit going into the contest.
Nunes, the UFC’s bantamweight and featherweight queen, told Brazilian reporters during a media scrum that Nina had to go to a hospital before the fight, but ultimately decided against pulling the plug on the match-up in Chicago.
“Nina had throat infection and was on antibiotics,” Nunes said. “And she still looked at me at the emergency [room], when only the UFC and the UFC doctor knew that she was sick at the emergency, and said, ‘Amanda, I don’t want anyone to know about this, I don’t want the UFC to put this on the media.