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UFC 232’s Amanda Nunes bets on ‘champion mindset’ to beat Cris Cyborg: I think exactly like her

Amanda Nunes believes her mind is at the right place as she approaches her super fight against the larger, heavier, UFC women’s featherweight champion, Cris Cyborg.

However, in an interview with Combate, the ‘Lioness’ explains she feels no nerves as the night of UFC 232 closes in.

According to the current women’s bantamweight champ, her calmness comes from the state of mind she got herself into, a ‘champion mindset’ which Nunes believes to be pivotal in order to face Cyborg as an equal and not be intimidated, unlike all of Cris’ previous opponents.

“I have something that makes me different from all the others: ‘champion mindset,” Nunes said.