Amanda Nunes

By E. Rizkallah

Amanda Nunes was born in Brazil in 1988. Nunes faced a lot of challenges when she was young, and she grew up in a quite tough environment due to her being from a very poor family. Nunes managed to find herself through training combat sports, which she started at only 5 years old. She started by training Karate, Jiu-Jitsu and then judo. This gave her a really strong base for her career in the mixed martial arts business.

Nunes started fighting in small events, she made her professional debut in an event called Prime MMA Championship 2. She quickly gained a lot of popularity due to her exciting and aggressive style. When she finally joined the UFC which now-a-days is the biggest MMA company in the world. She managed to win a lot of important fights against well known opponents like Ronda Rousey, Cris Cyborg, and Holly Holm. This helped her to quickly make a name for herself and make people notice her talents and her potential.

Nunes then continued her journey and broke multiple records in the UFC with her most important one being the first woman to ever hold two championships belts at 2 different weight classes at the same time. This had been done by male fighters before like Connor Mcgregor but never by a female fighter. With this achievement, Nunes continued to defend her title and now-a-days is considered one of the best fighters of MMA of all time. This shows that even in a mostly male dominated sport, it is possible to obtain such incredible achievements like Nunes did. 

With all of her success, Nunes managed to inspire thousands of woman in sports. Due to her being considered one of the best fighters ever in a male dominated sport, she showed that with determination, hard work and effort, any obstacle is possible to overcome.