The title shot campaign of Julianna Peña is gaining steam as UFC president Dana White confirms he is severely brooding about her as the next opponent for dual girls’s champion, Amanda Nunes.
Peña has persisted to observe stress to the UFC brass about getting the combat with Nunes, beginning alongside with her post-combat comments after submitting Sara McMann at UFC 257. She paid discontinuance attention to Nunes’ most most up-to-date title defense — which noticed the champion dominate girls’s featherweight contender Megan Anderson at UFC 259 — and then started inquiring for her return to the girls’s bantamweight division.
The employ of every doable tactic accessible, from social media call-outs to texting White and UFC matchmakers, Peña has no longer eased up whatsoever and appears to be like to be working in her prefer. In an interview with TMZ Sports actions, White modified into as soon as requested about the next title challenger for Nunes, who he first sang the praises of previous to revealing Peña is mostly in top enlighten to satisfy her within the Octagon.
“She’s so badass, man,” acknowledged White. “She is so badass. And also you know what’s loopy? Leading up to that [Anderson] combat her manager, Dan Lambert, acknowledged to me she appears to be like to be better than she’s ever seemed. She’s crushing of us within the gymnasium. I don’t even know the design it’s doable how she shall be this severely better with the total break day she’s had. And, you know, all people repeatedly says their fighter — acquire out about what she did.
“Shapely now, alright, I’ll give you a small of one thing that we’re talking about fine now. So, Julianna Peña has been driving me [expletive] bananas, okay? Will no longer cease terrorizing me about how she deserves this combat. How ‘Amanda Nunes this, Amanda Nunes that, Amanda is ducking her on account of the vogue doesn’t match up effectively for Amanda’. So, I’m all for doing Peña and Nunes.”
The response to this doable combat has been met with very pretty just a few reactions from Peña and Nunes. Nunes stands firm in her perception that Peña ought to accumulated be preventing one other contender love passe champion Germaine De Randamie previous to getting a championship opportunity, nevertheless the “Venezuelan Vixen” disagrees. Peña sees this more as Nunes avoiding her on account of her preventing vogue, which is primarily that of a wrestler and grappler.
If this combat does indeed modified into authentic, then this might also heed the sixth title defense for Nunes within the girls’s bantamweight division. Even though Nunes has no longer fought at 135 pounds since 2019, she says she shall be working alongside with her nutritionist to soundly salvage abet all the vogue down to that weight for her upcoming combat.
