UFC 316 headliner Julianna Pena definitely has her fair proportion of haters.
Saturday’s pay-per-view occasion will see a polarizing UFC champion return to motion, as Pena defends her title against Kayla Harrison.
The pair’s conflict comes seven months on from their respective victories at UFC 307 in Salt Lake Metropolis, the place Harrison beat Ketlen Vieira to remain unbeaten within the Octagon and Pena narrowly bought previous Raquel Pennington to start her second reign.
Within the lead-up to UFC 316, the champion has been her common trash-talking self. However relating to Pena’s assured phrases and demeanor, one retired fighter doesn’t suppose she backs it up contained in the cage.
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Matt Brown shouldn’t be a fan of UFC 316 champion Julianna Pena
Former UFC welterweight Matt Brown just lately regarded forward to Saturday’s numbered card throughout MMA Preventing’s The Fighter vs. The Writer.
‘The Immortal’ didn’t maintain again in his evaluation of Pena, going so far as to level to the bantamweight queen as one of many explanation why he doesn’t get pleasure from girls’s MMA.
That’s a far cry from how he views Pena’s challenger at UFC 316, although.
“I virtually really feel unhealthy for Julianna going into this combat,” Brown stated. “I don’t understand how she’s gotten so far as she has.
“I don’t like speaking trash about fighters, I don’t need to put her down — hopefully she simply doesn’t hear this — however she’s precisely one of many causes I don’t get pleasure from most girls’s MMA. Kayla is strictly one of many causes I do get pleasure from some girls’s MMA.
“Kayla is a f*cking legit savage fighter and she or he’s good and it’s (satisfying) to look at. Julianna, simply being sincere, I don’t understand how she’s within the place she’s in,” Brown added. “She doesn’t actually do a lot of something good.
“All due respect, I’m not making an attempt to take a bunch of hate for it or something however it simply is what it’s. I simply don’t see how one can combat that poorly and be within the high group on this planet.”
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Julianna Pena has proved her detractors fallacious previously
With regards to proving haters fallacious come combat evening, not many have performed so fairly like Pena.
‘The Venezuelan Vixen’ had her probabilities of profitable the bantamweight title extensively laughed off by followers, fighters, and analysts.
However at UFC 269, Pena submitted the great Amanda Nunes, stunning the world inside Las Vegas’ T-Cell Enviornment.
Whereas she was unable to repeat the feat of their rematch, Pena’s title crowning will eternally be etched in historical past as one of many all-time best upsets.
Pena will now have her sights on one other main upset at UFC 316.
Regardless of coming into the bout holding the title, the champion is being extensively tipped to drop it in her first protection as soon as once more, this time to a former teammate of Nunes’ in Harrison.
