Newly-minted undisputed bantamweight champion, Julianna Pena has as soon as extra performed down a title grudge struggle with Kayla Harrison, mocking her efficiency in opposition to perennial contender, Ketlen Vieira, as she hunts a trilogy conflict with Amanda Nunes as an alternative.
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 an in depth, cut up choice 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 event 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 struggle with Kayla Harrison after UFC 307
And hoping to place herself right into a title struggle with Pena, Ohio grappling expertise, Harrison admitted she was lower than happy together with her efficiency in opposition to Vieira – with the newly-crowned titleholder admitting she prefers a title trilogy with Nunes over Harrison next.
“The woman (Kayla Harrison) needs to take time without work as a result of she even is aware of that she will’t make the load and that she’s not a rightful 135er,” Julianna Pena informed MMA Today on SiriusXM. “She’s too massive. She clearly can’t even make the primary struggle, which is making it to the Octagon. She wants time without work. That. to me, is already a loss.”
“Secondly, there was nothing that I noticed in her struggle in opposition to 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 obtained unfinished enterprise to take care of. Harrison simply got here to the social gathering. Amanda Nunes is the large struggle, the cash struggle, the struggle that folks need to see.”
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