Julianna Peña says she is going to do no matter is critical to beat Raquel Pennington to regain the UFC girls’s bantamweight title this Saturday at UFC 307.
“If I obtained to poke her eyeballs out, if I obtained a chunk her on the freaking finger, I’m going to actually do no matter I can to get my hand raised,” Peña instructed MMA Combating. “I don’t care, come hell or excessive water, I assure you I’m keen to die in there, as you guys have seen. ’m not going to cease till I get the victory.
“So I don’t care if I knock her out with a pinky finger, I don’t care if I submit her with one arm, I’m going to do every thing that I can, and I’ll do every thing that I can to get my hand raised. I don’t know the way it’s going to come back. I can’t predict when, I’m not Nostradamus, I don’t have a crystal ball. I simply trust in myself and my recreation.”
The matchup between The Final Fighter season 18 solid members serves because the co-main occasion for the primary of the UFC’s two October pay-per-view occasions.
Peña first captured the title with a surprising stoppage victory over Amanda Nunes at UFC 269 in December 2021. “The Venezuelan Vixen” had her reign thwarted by Nunes within the rematch at UFC 277 eight-months later, dropping a lopsided unanimous determination.
Whereas nothing will prime the second of Peña pulling off one of many largest upsets in UFC historical past over the seemingly unbeatable Nunes, Peña says stopping the spectacular six-fight win streak of Pennington, and turning into a two-time champion within the course of shall be an in depth second.
“It can imply the world, it signifies that I clawed and scratched my manner again as much as the highest of the mountain and I obtained it performed once more,” Peña stated. “‘Peña Two-Time.,’ that sounds good to me. I, clearly, am on this sport for that purpose. I need to go down in historical past as probably the greatest. I need to go down, and within the Corridor of Fame is likely one of the finest and I’m not going to cease till I get there.
“It might be onerous to prime that second [of beating Nunes]. I blew the roof off of the place once I beat Amanda the primary time, however I’m wanting ahead to getting one other alternative, one other crack at gold. Simply wanting ahead to getting my hand raised.”