UFC bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes will return to the Octagon on Sept. 9 to defend her belt against Valentina Shevchenko in Edmonton, Canada, but is still being questioned for pulling out of the UFC 213 main event in July.
UFC president Dana White said on the day of the fight that Nunes had been medically cleared to compete, but still decided not to step inside the Octagon citing a severe sinusitis crisis, and Shevchenko doesn’t believe her.
On Thursday’s edition of The MMA Hour in Las Vegas, Nunes and her girlfriend Nina Ansaroff spoke to Ariel Helwani about what let to the cancelation of the fight.