UFC ladies’s bantamweight champion Julianna Peña shared a head-scratching tackle Belal Muhammad’s UFC 315 defeat.
Belal Muhammad‘s UFC welterweight title reign got here to an abrupt finish, by the hands of Jack Della Maddalena, final month at UFC 315 in Montreal. In a ‘Combat of the Yr’ candidate, Maddalena and Muhammad went the complete distance, with Maddalena strolling away with a unanimous resolution victory.
Maddalena is now set for a likely showdown with UFC light-weight champion Islam Makhachev for his subsequent struggle. Makhachev will vacate the light-weight belt later this month, opening the door to a matchup with the newly-crowned welterweight champion.
Muhammad has taken the beautiful UFC 315 loss in stride, regardless of listening to so much from his detractors after the struggle. However regardless of Muhammad’s strategy, his teammate believes the judges bought it incorrect at UFC 315.
Julianna Peña believes Belal Muhammad ‘bought robbed’ of a win at UFC 315
Muhammad and UFC ladies’s bantamweight champion Julianna Peña are longtime coaching companions in Chicago. Peña was a key presence in Muhammad’s struggle camp for UFC 315, and believes Muhammad did sufficient to get the nod on the scorecards and retain the UFC welterweight belt, opposite to well-liked opinion.
Throughout her UFC 316 media day press conference, Peña defined how she felt Muhammad was wronged by the judges at UFC 315.
“I didn’t suppose Belal misplaced. I watched that struggle and was like ‘Yeah, we bought it! He gained!’, after which once they known as it for the opposite man, kudos to him, however I assumed Belal gained,” Peña mentioned.
“I didn’t actually give him any pep discuss apart from the truth that I mentioned ‘Sorry my brother, you bought robbed’.”
Muhammad hasn’t explicitly mentioned he felt he deserved the win at UFC 315 after his efficiency, however is trying ahead to a return to the Octagon later this 12 months. As for Peña, she’s set to face Kayla Harrison within the UFC 316 co-main occasion this Saturday in Newark.
Peña wasn’t the one outstanding title who felt Muhammad deserved to retain his belt. Jeremy Stephens, who returned to the Octagon final month at UFC Des Moines, scored the struggle in Muhammad’s favor regardless of rooting for Maddalena to win.
Belal Muhammad bought into it with a UFC 316 star simply days earlier than the cardboard
Forward of his teammate’s return at UFC 316, Muhammad bought into it with one other high title on the cardboard this week after some brutal media day trash discuss. UFC welterweight Kevin Holland admitted he was happy to see Muhammad lose at UFC 315, prompting a heated back-and-forth between them on social media.
Holland will face Vicente Luque this Saturday at UFC 316 in his return to the Octagon. He defeated Gunnar Nelson earlier this 12 months at UFC London.
Whereas it’s unsure if Muhammad shall be within the ladies’s bantamweight champion’s nook this weekend, the previous welterweight titleholder continues to make headlines.
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