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Published 10:48 30 Jan 2017 GMT
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"Pump the brakes, pump the brakes. Let's defend the title first. You know what I mean? Let her defend her title first. She hasn't defended her title." "Everybody wants to jump around these days. We need to start pumping the brakes around here.”https://twitter.com/TheMikeyHutch/status/825761573163696129 Some people unfairly took aim at White for supposedly suggesting that Nunes had yet to defend her title, despite the fact that she absolutely murked former 135 lb queen Ronda Rousey in her first defence in UFC 207's headliner. However, this wasn't the case at all. That edited clip of White showcasing his apparent selective memory doesn't show the whole picture. Directly before he gave that answer, he was asked about the next challenger to Nunes' throne.
"Shevchenko proved tonight that she's a very well-rounded mixed martial artist, and she's ready for a title fight. Stylistically I think it's a very fun fight with these two. "I don't know when, I'll get home and figure it out."Although he didn't use the word 'again', it was implied that he meant Nunes had yet to defend her title against new number-one contender Shevchenko. No one asked him to clarify in the presser because the context showed this is what he meant. Context is key.
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