The subsequent UFC pay-per-view is closing in, and it’s a card that can closely impression the panorama of the ladies’s bantamweight division.
UFC 307, which matches down Oct. 5 at Delta Middle in Salt Lake Metropolis, hosts two key feminine bouts at 135 kilos: a girls’s championship bout between Raquel Pennington and Julianna Pena, and a prime contender contest pitting Kayla Harrison towards Ketlen Vieira.
Forward of the occasion, rising girls’s bantamweight Ailin Perez gave her picks when talking with MMA Junkie. Perez (10-2 MMA, 3-1 UFC), who returns this Saturday at UFC Combat Night time 243 towards Darya Zheleznyakova (9-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC), sees the belt staying within the palms of the champion.
“Raquel Pennington goes to maintain her title that night time,” Perez mentioned in Spanish. “Julianna Peña has been very inactive, and I simply don’t suppose she has the assets to shock that night time.”
The 35-year-old Pennington enters UFC 307 on a six-fight profitable streak. She received the vacant title by defeating Mayra Bueno Silva in January. In the meantime, Peña hasn’t fought since shedding the belt within the rematch with Amanda Nunes again in July 2022.
So far as the opposite bout, Perez expects Harrison (17-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) to maintain her undefeated UFC document. She respects the physique of labor that Vieira (14-3 MMA, 8-3 UFC) has constructed, however doesn’t suppose she’ll be capable of maintain off the previous PFL champion.
“Kayla Harrison will be capable of take her down, and she or he’s going to win the battle there,” Perez mentioned. “She’s going to regulate her. I don’t suppose she’ll get the end, however possibly she’s going to. That’s not completely surprising, however I don’t suppose she’ll get the end. I’m selecting Kayla to win. I don’t suppose Ketlen has the gasoline tank to cope with her.”
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