Breaking: The GOAT returns on Dec. 12.
Amanda Nunes (@Amanda_Leoa)
vs. Megan Anderson (@MeganA_mma)
has been agreed to for UFC 256 in December, per sources. pic.twitter.com/XUEQQ1W17t— Brett Okamoto (@bokamotoESPN)
August 21, 2020
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Ultimate Fighting Championship two-division champ Amanda
Nunes will stay at featherweight for her next title
defense. ESPN
announced on Friday that Nunes (20-4) will put her featherweight
throne up for grabs against Megan
Anderson (11-4) in December. The two will square off at the
newly announced UFC
256, which will go down on Dec. 12 at an undetermined location.
The two have agreed to the match, and it is not certain whether
they will be headlining the pay-per-view event.
Nunes is on an unprecedented 11-fight win streak, where “The
Lioness” has claimed the pelts of most of the greatest female
fighters to ever compete in the sport. Across that stretch, she has
won eight title fights – more
than any female UFC fighter and behind only six men in UFC
history – on her way to becoming the 10th fighter with the
organization to amass a win streak above 10 straight. When Nunes
overwhelmed Felicia
Spencer in June, she marked herself as the first fighter in
company history to ever record defenses while holding titles in two
weight classes.
Since a first-round submission defeat to Spencer in May 2019,
Anderson has rattled off back-to-back first-round finishes of
Zarah
Fairn dos Santos and Norma
Dumont Viana. Although both of those opponents relatively
inexperienced, the Aussie handed Fairn dos Santos her first
stoppage loss and was the first woman to defeat Dumont. The former
Invicta Fighting Championships featherweight queen won that
strap when she knocked out Charmaine
Tweet, and was later upgraded from interim to undisputed
champion. She did not defend it, instead getting called up to the
Las Vegas-based promotion to take on Holly Holm —
Anderson lost by decision.
