Two-time UFC ladies’s bantamweight champion Juliana Peña has completed all there’s to perform in combined martial arts. She received The Final Fighter 18, captured the bantamweight crown, misplaced it and received it again. She’s fought the very best stage of competitors and holds a submission win over Amanda Nunes.
Throughout an look on the Overdogs Podcast, Peña was requested about her favourite profession second and the reply could shock some.
„The most effective second in my profession was in all probability profitable The Final Fighter since you needed to combat 4 individuals and it was like a final girl standing sort of factor,“ Peña stated. „Additionally being the primary ever. So it is like Forrest Griffin, Diego Sanchez. They have been the primary ever to win The Final Fighter. I used to be the primary girl to win The Final Fighter.“
„The Final Fighter holds a very shut close to and pricey spot to my coronary heart as a result of it is one thing that may by no means be erased from historical past,“ she continued. „I am going to all the time be the primary girl to win. It was additionally one thing that form of put my title on the map, form of solidified who I’m within the firm. So far as UFC historical past goes, I am the primary to do it, in order that one was an actual particular one for me as a result of it was form of my popping out celebration the place I am saying, ‚Hey, that is me. I am Julianna.‘ That may all the time be particular.“
Peña is predicted to place her title on the road at UFC 316 on the Prudential Heart in Newark, New Jersey on June 7 in opposition to No. 2 ranked Kayla Harrison.
