Former UFC bantamweight champion Julianna Pena is aware of folks and different fighters dislike her, however she is ok with that.
Pena has been filled with trash discuss which helps promote fights, however due to that, she additionally has taken photographs from followers and different fighters. However, Pena says folks calling her probably the most hated fighter within the ladies’s division is a praise to her.
“The one massive identify I do know is mine. That’s the one massive identify I do know. That being stated, I believe it’s a praise that I’m probably the most hated within the ladies’s division, that all of them need to struggle me. It’s not simply her, it’s each single a type of gals. They at all times underestimate me, they suppose that I’m just a few layup struggle or they’re simply going to stroll throughout me. They usually’re at all times in for a impolite awakening when that isn’t the case,” Pena stated on the UFC Corridor of Fame media scrum (through CageSidePress).
Pena hasn’t fought since July of 2022 when she dropped a choice to Amanda Nunes to lose her bantamweight title after she submitted Nunes to win the championship in one of many largest upsets ever.
Julianna Pena Uncertain Why Title Combat Hasn’t Been Introduced
Julianna Pena is predicted to struggle Raquel Pennington for the ladies’s bantamweight title subsequent day trip.
Nevertheless, the struggle hasn’t been introduced but, and Pena isn’t certain why that’s however confirms that the struggle shall be taking place subsequent.
“I stated I used to be ready to signal for it. They’re most likely simply ensuring that each of us don’t present up like a bag of bones, doing all this promotion, after which one in every of us goes to fall out or one thing. I’m assuming that is likely one of the causes,” Pena added.
Julianna Pena is at present 11-5 as a professional and is coming off a choice loss to Amanda Nunes. Pena is 7-3 within the UFC and in addition has notable wins over Cat Zingano, Germaine de Randamie, and Nunes.
