When
Amanda
Nunes announced her retirement, she exited the stage almost
universally recognized as the greatest female mixed martial artist
of all-time.
The former
Ultimate Fighting Championship women’s bantamweight and women’s
featherweight titleholder completed her stellar career with a 23-5
record and a 74% finishing rate, having cemented herself as a
historic figure in combat sports circles. Nunes fought for the
final time at UFC 289, where she retained the undisputed women’s
bantamweight crown with a five-round unanimous decision over Irena
Aldana on June 10. She vacated the title 10 days later, once her
exit was made official.
As Nunes’ competitive exploits drift further and further into the
rearview mirror, a look at some of the numbers that accompanied her
along the way:
35: Years of age for Nunes, who was born on May 30, 1988 in Pojuca,
Brazil—a little more than 6,000 miles from UFC headquarters in Las
Vegas.
13: Nunes wins by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for
57% of her career total. Her list of UFC victims:
Holly Holm,
Cristiane
Justino,
Raquel
Pennington,
Ronda
Rousey,
Shayna
Baszler,
Germaine
de Randamie and
Sheila Gaff.
Shamrock holds four other wins by submission (17%) and six more by
decision (26%).
10: Seconds needed for Nunes to bury
Nadja Nadja
with punches on the Brazilian regional scene in July 2008. It ranks
as the fastest of the five sub-minute finishes on her resume.
7: Promotions for which Nunes plied her MMA trade. In addition to
her 16-2 mark in the UFC, she went 2-0 in Samurai Fight Combat, 1-1
in
Invicta Fighting Championships, 1-1 in
Strikeforce,
1-1 in Prime MMA Championship, 1-0 in Bitetti Combat and 1-0 in
Demo Fight.
12: Consecutive victories for Nunes from March 21, 2015 to March 6,
2021. It was her longest stretch of uninterrupted success.
773: Significant strikes landed by Nunes as a UFC women’s
bantamweight, placing her third on the promotion’s all-time list at
135 pounds. Only Aldana (959) and Pennington (922) have connected
with more.
300,000: Dollars in post-fight bonuses banked by Nunes across her
18 assignments in the UFC. She was awarded “Performance of the
Night” five times.
62: Rounds started by Nunes as a mixed martial artist. She went the
distance on seven different occasions and compiled a 6-1 record in
those bouts. The lone outlier was a unanimous decision defeat to
Sarah
D'Alelio at Invicta 4 on Jan. 5, 2013.
8: Fighters other than Nunes who have held UFC titles in two weight
classes.
Randy
Couture,
B.J. Penn,
Conor
McGregor,
Georges St.
Pierre,
Daniel
Cormier,
Henry
Cejudo,
Jon Jones and
Alex
Pereira comprise the list.
.653: Cumulative winning percentage between the five
women—D’Alelio,
Julianna
Pena,
Cat Zingano,
Alexis
Davis and
Ana Maria—who
defeated Nunes. They sport a combined record of 62-33.