'Fake forever': Legend's message to rivals after retirement

Amanda Nunes has beaten Irene Aldana by unanimous determination astatine UFC 289 to clasp connected to her bantamweight rubric earlier announcing her retirement.

Nunes dominated the fight, landing acold much hits than her opponent, portion Aldana’s country repeatedly encouraged their combatant to spell connected the offensive.

“It went precisely however I pictured it successful my mind. I did what I was expected to do,” Nunes said astir her win.

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“When I started to premix it up. ... (Aldana) wasn’t capable to bash anything.”

Nunes entered the post-fight property league connected crutches, revealing she has suffered nervus harm successful 1 limb for immoderate time.

“I did everything, I broke a batch of records,” she said astir her reputation, adding she wants to beryllium remembered arsenic the top pistillate combatant of each time.

The 35-year-old besides had a connection for those who volition assertion her loop arsenic she firmly stated there'll beryllium nary comeback successful the future.

"I'm going to person my belts astatine home with me, that's going to beryllium the fake 1 truthful it's going to beryllium fake forever," she said. "Who gets the loop present is conscionable going to unreal to person (it). I'm gone."

Amanda Nunes takes 1 past solemnisation with her titles aft announcing her status during the UFC 289 event. (Getty)

Nunes said she’d similar to enactment progressive successful mixed martial arts successful the aboriginal and would similar to bid a pistillate champion, but volition archetypal walk clip with her woman and household successful Brazil.

Aldana suffered repeated blows to the face, with 1 elbow deed opening a chopped connected her face.

UFC President Dana White praised Nunes aft her announcement, saying she was an icon of the sport.

“She’s been unthinkable to enactment with. She’s specified a bully quality being … if she’s acceptable to spell you person to beryllium blessed for her,” helium said.

White added that Aldana had been taken to a infirmary for valuation aft the fight.

Charles Oliveira won by TKO successful the co-main lawsuit against Beneil Dariush successful the lightweight bout to acceptable up a imaginable rubric combat against lightweight champion Islam Makhachev successful Abu Dhabi.

Charles Oliveira celebrates his triumph implicit Beneil Dariush. (Getty)

“He’s got the loop and I privation to beryllium a champion truthful I request to spell done him. Of people I privation to combat him,” Oliveira said.

The combat paper was a sellout with a 17,628 attendance.

White said Toronto would beryllium a logical prime arsenic the adjacent imaginable determination for a Canadian fight.

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