“I just stuck to the game plan”, Lesnar said.
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The first openly gay champion was crowned as Amanda Nunes defeated Miesha Tate in the main event in Las Vegas for the bantamweight title.
Though it was still being hyped as the biggest and best card in the company’s history, most of the pay-per-view bouts were underwhelming.
There is a new women’s bantamweight champion in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and her name is Amanda Nunes.
For now, Nunes enjoys the spoils of finally climbing the UFC mountain and claiming a title, joining Jose Aldo as Brazilian UFC champions. “This girl, she helped me every day”, The Associated Press reported. “I’m the champion”, she boasted.
Nunes got Tate’s back, opened her up with punches from the site and then sunk in the rear naked choke to force Tate to tap.
Lesnar beat Mark Hunt by decision in their clash having been successful with takedowns in rounds one and three, where he landed bombs from the top position.
While Brazil’s Nunes shocked Tate in the main event, the hulking Lesnar (6-3) was the greatest curiosity on the card.
Nunes initially hurt Tate with a pair of right straights before delivering a body shot that clearly hurt her American opponent. “I say to hell with Randy Orton, and throw the belt on him again, because it legitimizes it because of what he did tonight”.
Lesnar, who is due to return to the WWE for their flagship summer event SummerSlam, said: “Oh man, it took me a little while to get acclimated”. “I always come back stronger from these things”.
“Well let’s get one thing clear, Brock Lesnar does what Brock Lesnar wants to do”, Lesnar told reporters after his first fight in five years.
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Although there was a lot of buzz surrounding the once in a lifetime matchup, the fight was a complete dud as fan booed Cormier for laying on Silva most of the fight.
