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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Donagh Corby

Amanda Nunes joins elite club featuring Khabib after dominant UFC title win

Amanda Nunes recorded an historic and dominant victory over Julianna Pena to become a two-time bantamweight champion last night - and joined Georges St-Pierre and Khabib Nurmagomedov as one of just three fighters to record a 50-43 scorecard in a UFC title fight.

St-Pierre first achieved the feat against Jon Fitch back in 2008 for welterweight gold, while Nurmagomedov did it against Al Iaquinta during their hastily arranged lightweight title fight at UFC 223. What makes Nunes' feat even more impressive is that she entered the fight as the title challenger, and was the smallest favourite of the three with bookies.

She had lost by submission in the second round to Pena as recently as December in a huge upset, but changed up her whole camp in preparation and turned it around on the night.

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