Filed under: News , UFC , Videos EDMONTON – The common storyline about the first fight between Amanda Nunes and Valentina Shevchenko is that Nunes dominated early in the fight, but as time wore on, she gassed and allowed Shevchenko to storm back for a big third round. UFC women’s bantamweight champion Nunes (14-4 MMA, 7-1 UFC), who rematches Shevchenko (14-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC) in Saturday’s UFC 215 pay-per-view headliner (following the cancellation of the original main event ), ultimately won the UFC 196 bout in March 2016 by unanimous decision , but lingering questions remain about what would have happened if two more rounds were in play. Nunes’ American Top Team coach Marcus “Conan” Silveira said the common perception of the initial encounter is false. Related Valentina Shevchenko feels great ahead of UFC 215 title match – and has dance moves to show it “What surprises me, and what I feel kind of irritated a little bit is how people, they analyze fights the way they see fights,” Silveira told MMAjunkie at Thursday’s UFC 215 open workouts. “She won basically the first two rounds
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Amanda Nunes’ coach explains why public perception of 1st Shevchenko fight all wrong – MMA Junkie