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Published 16:52 18 May 2017 BST
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"It goes beyond being a Mom joke. A lot of people don't know this, that's not my biological Mom. I have a long, dark history with my biological Mom that at some point will come out, I just choose not to talk about it." "My Dad married my Mom, who is my Mom now, when I was like two. So she's been in my life since I can remember. This is a very fragile lady who's been through a lot. She's a widow to a guy who she was married to for a long time. I'm very protective of her, it's my job to protect her now that my Dad's passed on."Later in the press conference, there was a pretty heated moment between UFC women's bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes and her next opponent Valentina Shevchenko. As the two warriors engaged in the obligatory staredown, Shevchenko touched Nunes' face, who responded with a firm push-punch of her own. https://twitter.com/ufc/status/863157966719070209 Again, this was a bit of an overreaction from Nunes, and her explanation during a UFC 213 media lunch didn't really justify the move. (quotes via MMAFighting).
She did it first... a classic.“You guys never see me do that before. If she didn’t touch me, nothing is gonna happen. Imagine in that situation, a lot of emotions involved, somebody touch your face. It’s not cool. I kind of responded in that moment. It was more than she did to me, but I reacted.
“You never know, especially how you feel in that moment and somebody talks so much shit about you and touches you, your face. At that angle, you guys couldn’t see it that well, but I felt it.”
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