Julianna Peña ‘trolled’ Harrison at UFC 307 with Nunes shout

UFC desk analyst Chael Sonnen doesn’t imagine Julianna Pena was real along with her post-fight name out of Amanda Nunes at UFC 307.

Within the fast aftermath of Bruce Buffer shouting “and new” for Peña (13-5 MMA, 8-3 UFC) because the break up resolution winner over Raquel Pennington to reclaim the ladies’s bantamweight title, “The Venezuelan Vixen” responded to a query from Joe Rogan about who she needs subsequent.

All through the construct of the occasion, Olympic gold medalist and two-time PFL champion Kayla Harrison was propped up as the following title challenger, ought to she defeat Ketlen Vieira in the principle card opener. Harrison (18-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) was additionally tabbed because the backup for the title battle, ought to one thing have gone flawed throughout battle week.

Harrison’s providers as a backup had been pointless, and she or he took care of enterprise towards Vieira, dominating the battle when it hit the bottom.

Peña had the chance to place reduce a improbable promo on the potential showdown towards Harrison, however as a substitute, she hit everybody with a swerve, calling out Nunes, who’s now retired.

Peña and Nunes are 1-1 in title fights, so a rubber match would make sense on paper. Nonetheless, other than all-emoji tweets from Nunes, there isn’t any indication she will probably be returning to motion.

Because the two-time bantamweight champ carried on along with her name out of Nunes, a break up display screen confirmed Harrison’s response backstage, who motioned along with her fingers that Peña was working from her.

Sonnen discovered the shout hilarious.

“That’s a troll job!” Sonnen mentioned laughing through the UFC 307 post-fight present. “That’s a troll job! Amanda’s not even within the group. If she comes again, she’d like to start out at 145 – I imply, not for nothing, the division’s gone. We obtained plenty of room between these two combating.

“It’s clearly Kayla. Peña is aware of it’s Kayla, which is nice. … That was a troll job, and it was very properly achieved.”

Sonnen then harkened again to when former bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley pulled the same transfer on Merab Dvalishvili, by calling out Ilia Topuria as a substitute. In the end, the battle between O’Malley and Dvalishvili got here collectively, and the latter received the showdown at UFC 306 at Sphere in Las Vegas.

Throughout a post-fight press convention, Peña ensured her ambition was actual by doubling down on her name out of Nunes. She said she believed the previous two-division champion retired too early and doesn’t know what she needs to do along with her life now.

However earlier than Peña can comfortably transfer on to a unique challenger, Sonnen believes she could have unfinished enterprise with Pennington (16-10 MMA, 13-6 UFC), contemplating the controversial nature of the judges’ scorecards within the break up resolution.

“I imagine Kayla will get the nod, however Pennington’s again within the dialog,” Sonnen mentioned. “There’s lots of people, I’m considered one of them, that believes Pennington received this battle. I picked Peña. I’ve a private relationship with Peña. I used to be rooting for Peña. She didn’t win this battle, not primarily based on what I noticed.”