Kayla Harrison: 'Julianna Peña rubs me the | MMA News
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 identify in the hat of people who aren’t massive followers of the champion on Wednesday during an look on UFC Unfiltered.
“Julianna rubs me the wrong way,” Harrison stated. “She says a lot of good things. She’s entertaining. She’s tough as nails. I respect her as a fighter, but it’s like, first, she talked sh*t about me when I was in the PFL. ‘Oh, if you come to the real promotion, fight at a real weight class, if you can make 135 then we’ll talk.’ So here we are a couple of years later. I put my money where my mouth is. I made 135. Then she’s like, ‘Oh, she’s on steroids. She uses this,’ and I’m like, ‘Okay.’
Following Peña’s UFC 307 win over Raquel Pennington to become a two-time titleholder, retired former two-time champion Amanda Nunes posted a video to social media teasing a potential return. In her UFC 307 post-fight interview, Peña called out Nunes. None of it made sense to Harrison, who defeated Ketlen Vieira on the same fight card.
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“It does not actually make sense to me. Like, after I fought Holly [Holm], Amanda acquired online saying, ‘Oh, you are not saying my identify.’ And I used to be like, ‘Well, woman, you are f*cking retired,'” Harrison said. “And Julianna fights and as an alternative of calling me out she calls out Amanda, who’s retired. They simply do not make sense.”
“Next factor she’s going to be calling out Ronda [Rousey], after which she did call out Ronda on Ariel Helwani’s podcast. She was like, ‘I’d struggle Ronda Rousey,” Harrison continued. “She says that I believe that I’m a boogieman, however you are the just one that will not say my identify. I bleed simply the similar as you. Let’s get in the cage and discover out. Let’s discover out.”
When asked what’s next, Harrison replied, “Hopefully the f*cking title.”
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