Yana Kunitskaya is challenging UFC Women’s Feather💝weight Champion Cyborg for the gold in the main event of UFC 222.
Cyborg has earned a total of sixteen of her professional MMA wins by KO/TKO, but Kunitskaya does think the champion ac♋tually has much knockout power.
“I know that she’s strong, but I don’t think she has that strong of knockout power,” Kunitskaya said to . “She has no clean knockouts where girls go down, like Holly (Holm) have. But yes, she’s very tough. She finishes all the fights by technical knockout. I think I’m strong, too, strong enough to compare with her.”
While Cyborg has ear💯ned an aforementioned sixteen wins by KO/TKO, while Kunitskaya has earned sev🐷en of her pro wins by KO/TKO.
Despite taking the main event bout on short notice, a confident Kunitskaya says she doesn’t feel any pressure ꦛh🔯eading into Saturday Night.
“I don’t feel any pressure,” Kunitskaya said. “Everyone has weaknesses, and her last fight with Holly (Holm), it was five rounds, and it showed a lot. I was getting ready for everything and find holes everywhere – in stand-up and the ground in wrestling. I’m trying to get ready for everything.”
UFC 222 takes place on Saturday, March 3 from the T-Mobile Aren🉐a in Las Vegas, Nevada with Cyborg and Yana Kunitskaya headlining. Fightful is providing live coverage of the event, with a post-show podcast to follow.
