Newly topped two-time girls’s bantamweight champion Julianna Peña is not simply expert as a prime stage fighter, she has an uncanny knack for making contenders and former champions dislike her.
Second-ranked contender Kayla Harrison threw her title within the hat of people who aren’t large followers of the champion on Wednesday throughout an look on UFC Unfiltered.
“Julianna rubs me the incorrect manner,” Harrison mentioned. “She says a whole lot of good issues. She’s entertaining. She’s robust as nails. I respect her as a fighter, but it surely’s like, first, she talked sh*t about me once I was within the PFL. ‘Oh, in case you come to the true promotion, struggle at an actual weight class, if you may make 135 then we’ll discuss.’ So right here we’re a few years later. I put my cash the place my mouth is. I made 135. Then she’s like, ‘Oh, she’s on steroids. She makes use of this,’ and I am like, ‘Okay.’
Following Peña’s UFC 307 win over Raquel Pennington to grow to be a two-time titleholder, retired former two-time champion Amanda Nunes posted a video to social media teasing a possible return. In her UFC 307 post-fight interview, Peña known as out Nunes. None of it made sense to Harrison, who defeated Ketlen Vieira on the identical struggle card.
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“It does not actually make sense to me. Like, after I fought Holly [Holm], Amanda obtained on-line saying, ‘Oh, you are not saying my title.’ And I used to be like, ‘Nicely, girl, you are f*cking retired,'” Harrison mentioned. “And Julianna fights and as a substitute of calling me out she calls out Amanda, who’s retired. They only do not make sense.”
“Subsequent factor you recognize she’s going to be calling out Ronda [Rousey], after which she did name out Ronda on Ariel Helwani’s podcast. She was like, ‘I might struggle Ronda Rousey,” Harrison continued. “She says that I feel that I am a boogieman, however you are the one one that will not say my title. I bleed simply the identical as you. Let’s get within the cage and discover out. Let’s discover out.”
When requested what’s subsequent, Harrison replied, “Hopefully the f*cking title.”
