5 of the most successful power couples in MMA

#4. Rodtang Jitmuangnon and Stamp Fairtex - Muay Thai's most beloved love team

This relationship between world champions is the perfect example of two people building each other up and motivating each other to be great. As far as relationships go, you couldn't ask for a better one than this.

Though the two have already broken up, the brief relationship between ONE flyweight Muay Thai champion Rodtang Jitmuangnon and former ONE atomweight kickboxing and Muay Thai champion Stamp Fairtex was a match made in (MMA) heaven.

After some private conversations on social media, the two first met in Japan when Rodtang was fighting in the lead card of an event. Shortly afterwards, the two became an official couple and the world of Muay Thai collectively lost their minds.

In an interview with ONE Championship, Stamp, who now fights in MMA, had this to say about her former lover:

“At first I wasn’t really interested because he’s like a barbarian [laughs]. But after we started talking, I realized how mature he is. He is also someone who is humble towards adults and seeks their advice. I thought, if he understands this, then he’s okay. He really made an effort to get to know me and my family too. He was a perfect gentleman. It was only a matter of time before I decided to be in a relationship with him.”

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the two moved in together and trained under the same roof at the renowned Fairtex gym in Pattaya, Thailand.

Needless to say, this decision produced great results in the cage as the two world champions got to focus on improving each other's skillset. Success in the cage followed soon after.

Watch this short video of the two former lovebirds training together:

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#3. Amanda Nunes and Nina Nunes - the First Family of Women's MMA

Though she may have lost her UFC bantamweight belt in a stunning upset to Julianna Peña last year, Amanda 'The Lioness' Nunes' legacy is etched in stone.

Considered the greatest female MMA fighter of all time, Nunes' accomplishments in the cage are, for the lack of a better term, crazy. 'The Lioness' defended two divisional belts while holding both titles at the same time. No other MMA champion has ever done that, past or present.

Nunes is not just winning her fights, she's dominating her opponents in the most brutal of ways. Her last five fights before losing to Peña - fought at bantamweight and featherweight - didn't look like fights at all. They were assassinations.

One might credit Nunes' success to her long-standing relationship with her wife, Nina Nunes (Ansaroff). Nina is a UFC strawweight who's had a decent run in the UFC. Both are training under the same team and have been working on each other's careers ever since they got together.

Though Nina's accomplishments are worlds away from Amanda's, she's overcome a different kind of battle most of us wouldn't even dare try: motherhood. The 36-year old fighter sat through the entirety of 2020 to focus on her pregnancy. She's since returned to the cage last year, albeit in a losing effort to Mackenzie Dern.

Always in each other's corner and now with a little girl cheering them on, Amanda and Nina will continue to break new ground for women's MMA and the LGBTQIA+ community.