RIO DE JANEIRO – UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes and Raquel Pennington ’s friendship has come with the realization that one day, they would have to face off in the octagon. Now that Pennington (9-5 MMA, 6-2 UFC) has finally arrived, Nunes (15-4 MMA, 8-1 UFC) bears no grudge for her friend’s title aspirations, which come to a head on Saturday when they fight for the belt at UFC 224. “Here we go, and now we step into the cage and do our work, and after we can be friends again,” Nunes told MMAjunkie in advance of the pay-per-view fight at Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro
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UFC champ Amanda Nunes on challenger: I know all her game plans – MMA Junkie