Joe Asks Valentina Shevchenko About Rematching Amanda Nunes

Was Amanda Nunes your most difficult fights? I never was considered like difficulty of the fight only for the fight for this fight for Unsolved Layers. For me difficulty of the fight it's combination of training camp your approach to the fight, fight week and the fight itself. So I still cannot like answer this question. I think it's the hardest question and every time people ask me like what is your hardest fight, hardest opponent and I just cannot answer because it's so different. Each fight is a different approach, different training camp. Everyone is difficult. Difficult with their like own style something like that. That's why hard to say. What is difficult about Amanda's style? Your size. It's 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 like a lot of power. But Amanda I think she's just like big than anyone. Bigger. You think she's bigger than the rest of the division? What is her 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 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 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 whose 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 gonna 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 October and August. Do you know anything they can approach me with this? I'm gonna try. I think when I look at the two of you it's the most compelling fight in the UFC and in the 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 do anything special to lift up my weight. You wouldn't start working out and lift weights? No no no no because 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 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 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'm not gonna lose this six pound what is like. That's what you do for 125. 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 when Israel Adesanya went up to challenge Jan Bohovich for the 205 pound title he did the same thing that you're saying. He didn't gain any weight he just just concentrated on his technique and training but there was moments in that fight where the size of Jan Bohovich was 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 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. 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 it's 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. 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