00:00with you on fm 104.3 wq am and very excited to talk to our next guest and she is
00:05going to be
00:06back in the cage coming up at ufc 334 the champ amanda nunez joining us here it's great to have
00:14you uh with us and excited to see a fight again thank you thank you guys i'm very excited to
00:19be
00:19back and i can't wait what is uh what's this year been like i mean this was a fight that
00:25was supposed
00:25to happen in january you had to wait through the whole uh injury and surgery with kayla did you
00:31think there was was there ever a point this year where you thought it wasn't going to happen
00:36like i was very very very upset and a little bit frustrated for me too because we was ready to
00:46go
00:46and i have plans always i make plans for you know what i mean after the fight but you know
00:52it is
00:53what it is happening injuries we got understanding nothing what what i can do and uh but like when
01:00they told me like with the neck and the surgery and everything with the neck i was like a little
01:04bit
01:04like scary to this fight not happen anymore you know because the next surgery you know how it is
01:10but i'm glad we here now we have a day so but always a little bit scared for sure do
01:18you think
01:18you would have still kept if she wasn't coming back uh do you feel like you still would have wanted
01:23to
01:23come back and do this again or is this is it particularly this opponent that you wanted to
01:27take on in kayla now i come back to fight kayla or now kayla i would i would fight for
01:35sure i i came back
01:39to for myself you know i want to leave it all over again i want to fight again i want
01:45to like
01:46do everything about the fighting life again i always miss so much what what made you want that
01:53because it's so rare in sports amanda that somebody's undeniable like nobody everybody knows you the best
01:59you've done it all you've beaten everybody there is to beat why do you feel the need to to come
02:04back
02:04like what was the thing that was really pulling you to to want to still compete honestly i needed the
02:10break you know i was dominated for so long in my life in both division i cleaned up pretty much
02:17both
02:17divisions and at one point i need a break but i didn't know how to do that break you know
02:24if i
02:24told ufc like oh i need a break i want to like stay out for a little bit but they
02:30would still like no
02:31i still was going to fight and they never let me like really rest you know they always gonna send
02:37me a
02:38message are you right now and then like never giving me like timing for my body my mind to tell
02:44me
02:44okay now you're good to go you know so when i retire i like literally giving my mind my body
02:53a rest
02:56and leave it open also deep in my heart leave it open when i was ready i don't want to
03:02nobody like
03:03pressure me or tell me or nothing i just want to go and like be free you know and was
03:11what i did
03:13also i don't want to keep the belts because i would hold the division i want to make that division
03:18like great again just okay maybe in the future if i come back or now whatever at least like the
03:25division
03:25is like you mix it up it's a good mix it up so that's why i put my my my
03:31belt down and know
03:33if i want to come back i get it again you know i didn't put it there wonder oh my
03:38i might not be
03:39able to get anymore now soon i put that belt down i knew if i come back i'm gonna get
03:44those belts again
03:46do you remember the moment when you felt refreshed and you were ready to come back like when was that
03:51when was that for you when you felt like i had charged the batteries back up where was it you
03:56know a moment with family was it a moment away were you watching fights yeah i was in brazil and
04:03i kind
04:03of like was back in in training like doing like physical training and all those things i felt so good
04:11to go back like like oh my god like this is like making me like heavy chills you know how
04:17good i feel
04:18in brazil and i stayed there and then i i saw like the fights the girls fight and i saw
04:26caleb become
04:27a champion too and and then i say like she's like this is all like giving me like you know
04:35when you try
04:36to like put a fire in a candle and then you see the candle go and then like and then
04:41finally the candle
04:42like catch on fire was exactly how what was that for me like i was like oh my god like
04:48i feel like
04:50a fire when it started you know and kayla got the belt and then calling me out too that was
04:57like
04:57you know what i'm like i'm so ready for this i feel like for sure the call out was was
05:06one of the
05:08the good things that happened a moment so my my really the fire be able to to leave it again
05:17amanda what what was the time you probably thought you were going to fight her everybody knows like
05:21there was a time where you guys were at the same gym down here in south florida but like did
05:25you did
05:26you always have it in your mind like that was going to be a matchup that was going to happen
05:30honestly like when she came to the gym right away i got the feeling though you know right away i
05:40got
05:40a very interesting feeling i remember this day you know when i saw her in the mat and i didn't
05:47know
05:47nobody tell me anything i didn't know about her but like the gym is not my i don't i don't
05:51need to
05:51know anything also about the skin but like i didn't know anything i just got in the gym she was
05:56there in
05:57the mat and i i say hi to her but right away i got the feeling you know i got
06:02the feeling and we
06:04never would be able to to be a really training partners because the energy never was an energy of
06:13like a training partner we knew deeply deep in the soul i know you know mind the future something
06:22happened here mind the future something happened here couple times i tried to like uh no i know
06:27maybe now like but i know what's wrong in the whole time you know what i mean that's the crazy
06:34thing
06:35back then she didn't even was in the ufc yet yeah but the vision that i have was going to
06:44happen when
06:44it's gonna happen today you know what i mean and i i have people that's i told you know this
06:51is this is
06:51not something that i didn't kept for me i told people you know nina knows like coach know and uh
07:00and i knew that's possible happen so but that's why i feel like we never was like a training training
07:07partner like people think we were we never was like bodies bodies in the gym that's calling that's
07:14you know we respect each other in the gym yes but i was there i feel like this was a
07:24mission to see
07:24each other you know you always have that in you because i think anybody who sees your resume like
07:29man nobody could touch what you've done in the sport but you always uh have that on your mind of
07:33what could be competitive for yourself like is that always a drive that you have of thinking about
07:37yeah this could be something that is down and is down the line like there's a possibility even if i've
07:43beaten everybody that there there could be some new challenge down the line i believe it though i
07:47believe it i believe that the my god they have like a huge potential to see the future yes you
07:53know
07:54especially like as a champion for so long dominating everything and i see everything that's happened in
08:01my life it happened before i becoming what i am today i truly believe that it's like i do have
08:07a power
08:08that i can see you know what i mean my future challenges my even if they not in the same
08:12organization
08:13know things like that but i i do i do have those things i i know i know things they
08:20can it can can be
08:24something in the in the further you know in the future so i feel like kayla i knew the whole
08:32time
08:32since day one you know since the connection never like voice will be able to to pick it up i
08:38see right
08:38away it's possible we see each other what are the things that you've really sharpened up to get ready
08:44for her or do you just focus on yourself like getting ready and executing your game plan just in
08:50particular with this matchup yeah my time i feel like it's gonna play very well against her i feel like
08:56everything is gonna play with my time i'm gonna make this fight go in the way i want and her
09:02game her game is like perfect with my strategy so just be ready and i'm very excited about how this
09:13fight is gonna play out i'm very excited to see you back in there amanda uh very much appreciate
09:17you giving us some time for this it's uh it's gonna be great to see you back in there go
09:21watch
09:21her fight ufc 334 november 14th at madison square garden you guys can watch that on paramount plus
09:27uh a real thrill to talk to you amanda it's great to have you back in the sport and uh
09:31we can't wait
09:31see you back in action in a couple weeks can't wait thank you take care
