In the movie Air, about Nike’s courtship of Michael Jordan, Sonny Vaccaro tells the Jordan family in one memorable scene how, after a superstar reaches the top, there is this desire to then tear them down.
And that’s kind of where it seems that UFC double champion Amanda Nunes finds herself.
On Saturday at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the main event of UFC 289, Nunes will defend her women’s bantamweight title against Irene Aldana. Nunes is 22-5 in her MMA career and has finished 17 of those 22 wins.
She didn’t just beat, she obliterated a pair of legends, Ronda Rousey and Cris “Cyborg” Justino, in a combined time of 99 seconds.