Pena’s Pennington view
“Raquel has not been a great illustration of the ladies’s bantamweight division,” Peña advised MMA Junkie and different reporters at Wednesday’s UFC 307 media day. “She has not promoted. She has mentioned no to ‘Embedded.’ She has consistently performed every thing that she will to keep away from being the face of girls’s MMA and never being that huge face who desires to advertise and be that huge illustration of girls’s MMA.
“That, to me, is you’re exhibiting me nothing, however you’re telling me every thing by not being that individual that’s letting everybody know that you simply’re combating. I wish to be that individual. That’s my position, and I can do it higher, and that’s why I imagine I’m going to have the ability to seal the deal on Saturday night time and get that gold once more.”
“Each single combat that I combat is the most important combat of my life. However I really feel like, particularly at this point in time, the window of combating for me narrows day-by-day-by-day. I’m not no spring hen no extra. I’m not 21 years previous. However with that being mentioned comes expertise, comes a little bit of wiseness within the sport. I really feel like each combat is the most important combat of my life, however particularly this one as a result of I’m going for gold once more, and also you’re not going to get 100 probabilities to combat for the belt.
“It took me a very long time of calling for the belt to wish to get up to now. Now that I’m at this level it’s to take care of and I’m at all times going to be in these championship fights. So these are gigantic fights for me and I’m going to do every thing that I can to grab the second.”
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