Name: Joe Asks Valentina Shevchenko About Rematching Amanda Nunes
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Asks Valentina Shevchenko About Rematching Amanda Nunes' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-10-22. Transcript available.

Was Amanda Nunez your most difficult fights?
I never was considered like difficulty of the fight only for the fight, for
these five rounds or less.
For me, difficulty of the fight, it's combination of training camp, your
approach to the fight,
the fight week and the fight itself.
So I still cannot answer this question.
I think it's the hardest question and every time people ask me what is your
hardest fight,
hardest opponent, and I just cannot answer because it's so different.
Each fight, it's a different approach, different training camp.
Everyone is difficult. Difficult with their own style, something like that.
That's why it's hard to say.
What is difficult about Amanda's style?
Her size is not her style. It's not her style. It's just she's big and heavy.
Yeah. And power?
Everyone has power. Everyone has power. If you're speaking about 135 weight
class,
everyone has a lot of power. But Amanda, I think she's just bigger than anyone,
bigger.
You think she's bigger than the rest of the division?
What is her working weight? 160? 170? I don't know.
Is it really that big?
I don't know.
Well, she does fight at 145 and she looks the same at 145 as she does at 135.
And obviously at 145 she's able to knock out Cyborg.
Yeah. Yeah. It's kind of like, you know, what about the knockouts?
Everyone has like chances to knock out each other. So it's just like, it's 50-50.
It's the situation.
If, for example, you have interchange, the chances are more for each one, right?
But you have to smart to have, you have to fight very smart.
You know that small gloves, it's like more possibility to be knocked out or you
make the knockout.
So if it's kind of like, are you or you gonna hit or they gonna hit you?
So it's kind of like, this is what I saw in their fights.
So it was interchange and this interchange who's on that moment were more lucky.
If you had a long time out, like if the UFC said, here we are, it's, we are in
October.
If they said, Valentina, August next year, we would like you to fight Amanda Nunes.
That's going to be this big, super fight. Would you try to gain weight? Would
you lift weights?
Would you do anything differently? Or would you just concentrate on technique
and strategy
and maintain the same weight you're at now?
We are in October and August.
Yeah.
Do you know anything they can approach me with this?
I'm gonna try.
Well, I think when I look at the two of you, it's the most compelling fight in,
in the UFC and in
women's MMA. I believe that's the most compelling fight is because you're both
at the top of your
game and you, there's an argument for both of you to be the greatest of all
time.
I'm not gonna, um, do anything special to lift up my weight.
You wouldn't start working out and lift weights?
No, no, no, no, no. Because, um, I don't believe it's gonna help.
I believe it's gonna be worse for the fighter because if in your whole life you
was like, um,
certain body type, you know how to carry like certain muscles, amount of
muscles, and then
suddenly for last two, three months you start to carry way more. So what's
gonna happen? You're gonna
be slower. You're not gonna have same, uh, resistance for the whole fight
because you have to carry more
weight on top of you. So I will do the same. I just want to do the last, like,
last day weight cut for
what I do for 125. I gonna lose, uh, I'm not gonna lose this six pound. What is
like, um,
that's what you do for 130, 125. And I just will eat normally as I do and train
the same ways as I do.
It's interesting to see different people's approaches, right? Like, uh, when
Israel Adesanya went up to
challenge John Bohovic for the 205 pound title, he did the same thing that you're
saying. He didn't gain any
weight. He just, uh, just concentrated on his technique and training. But there
was moments in
that fight where the size of John Bohovic was, uh, it was evident when in the
grappling exchanges,
when he was able to control them on the ground. Do you think that there's any
benefit? I mean,
this is why I'm saying if you have a long time, I'm not saying if you just have
a normal eight week
camp, I'm saying if they give you eight months, nine months, and they let you
know in advance,
you still don't think you'd ever try to gain any weight? I don't think it's, it's
still gonna help
because, uh, someone naturally bigger every time will have this advantage being
bigger. No matter how
more weight you're gonna put on top, you are still the same, just with the
extra weight on you. Yeah.
Well, that's why I'm interested in John Jones. And John Jones, when he's trying
to move up to the
heavyweight division, he's gained a lot of weight. And he wants to be over the
265 pound limit and then
cut back down to 265. So I believe he's walking around somewhere in the 260s
now.
I think we will know the answer only when he will fight in this weight class.
And we will know exactly
how it's gonna affect him. Will it be good for him or bad for him? So we don't
know. As I say,
every person is different. And I know how my body works. I know what is good
for me, what is bad for me.
Israel, he knows exactly the same about his body type. John Jones, he knows
exactly about himself.
So this is everyone's approach. And I think everyone should do what they think
is gonna help them to win.
So for you, from going down from 135 to 125 was the right move. You felt like
much better at 125.
It's my natural weight class. It's like, it's like what I was competing all the
time.
Have you ever thought of going lower? 115? Yeah. And die
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