Newly-minted undisputed bantamweight champion, Julianna Pena has as soon as extra performed down a title grudge combat with Kayla Harrison, mocking her efficiency towards perennial contender, Ketlen Vieira, as she hunts a trilogy conflict with Amanda Nunes as a substitute.
Pena, who co-headlined UFC 307 earlier this month, managed to win the undisputed bantamweight crown for the second time throughout her Octagon tenure — scoring a detailed, cut up determination win over Raquel Pennington in one other grudge conflict for the Washington native.
As for Harrison, the previous two-time PFL (Skilled Fighters League) light-weight match winner and two-time Olympic gold medalist, made her sophomore outing within the Octagon on the principle card of that occasion, touchdown a hard-fought unanimous judging win of her personal over the aforenoted, Vieira.
Julianna Pena scoffs at title combat with Kayla Harrison after UFC 307
And hoping to place herself right into a title combat with Pena, Ohio grappling expertise, Harrison admitted she was lower than happy together with her efficiency towards Vieira – with the newly-crowned titleholder admitting she prefers a title trilogy with Nunes over Harrison subsequent.
“The woman (Kayla Harrison) desires to take day without work as a result of she even is aware of that she will’t make the burden and that she’s not a rightful 135er,” Julianna Pena informed MMA As we speak on SiriusXM. “She’s too huge. She clearly can’t even make the primary combat, which is making it to the Octagon. She wants day without work. That. to me, is already a loss.”
“Secondly, there was nothing that I noticed in her combat towards Ketlen Vieira that was, ‘Oh, some world beater. Oh my gosh, I’m terrified. Kayla Harrison.’ Give me a break,” Julianna Pena defined. She went out [Salt Lake City] there three weeks early and nonetheless gassed out. Kayla Harrison, get in line. I’ve bought unfinished enterprise to take care of. Harrison simply got here to the occasion. Amanda Nunes is the large combat, the cash combat, the combat that folks wish to see.”
