Amanda Nunes was already No. 1 -- at least in our book. Now, “Lioness” can make a legitimate claim to being the greatest female mixed martial artist of all time.
Nunes scored a brutal 51-second knockout of Cris Cyborg in the UFC 232 co-headliner, joining Daniel Cormier and Conor McGregor as the only simultaneous two-division champions in promotion history. Already the top ranked fighter in Sherdog.com’s previous women’s pound-for-pound Top 10, Nunes adds “Cyborg” to a resume that includes Ronda Rousey, Valentina Shevchenko (twice), Julia Budd, Miesha Tate, Sara McMann and Germaine de Randamie, to name a few. On the basis of her two narrow losses to Nunes, Shevchenko, the UFC’s flyweight…
