Julianna Peña grew to become two-time ladies’s bantamweight champion at UFC 307 final October, successful again the title from Raquel Pennington in a controversial determination.
On June 7, on the Prudential Middle in Newark, N.J.,Peña (12-5) places her title on the road within the UFC 316 co-main occasion towards Kayla Harrison (18-1). Regardless of being the champion, Peña will enter the struggle a large underdog.
“It is simply this fixed reign of disrespect in all places I am going. It is similar to the such is my life, and that is okay as a result of nothing makes me happier, nothing brings me extra pleasure than to destroy folks’s nights, to show everyone unsuitable,” Peña stated on The Ariel Helwani Present. “I am simply being put able once more of needing to silence everybody. And if anyone has that capability, it is me.”
“I do know what I am able to doing. I do know who I’m as a fighter, and realizing the work and the mat time that I’ve put in give me all the arrogance on the earth that I may actually struggle anyone, so come on woman. She’s in for an extended evening on the workplace both manner you cut up it.”
An Olympic gold medalist in Judo, Harrison has been topic to anti-doping drug testing for many years. She all the time exhibits up in unimaginable situation and Peña questioned whether or not Harrison’s physique is pure.
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“At this level, the drug testing is just like the Wild, Wild West. It is like, pee in a plastic cup that has completely no safety on it and do what you gotta do. Even within the Olympics with the Russians with the ability to tamper with these USADA-like unbreakable-type of bottles and have the ability to change the pee in them,” stated Peña.
“Finally, every thing you do in the dead of night involves the sunshine. And I can’t affirm 110-percent whether or not she is, or she is just not on PEDs. However I’ll say, again then, within the Olympics, she seemed like a lady, very female. Now she appears to be like tremendous juicy and like lower up. Anyone give that woman a band-aid as a result of she’s lower. It would not simply occur in a single day since you touched the weights just a little bit.
“I need to say what everyone is considering on their minds, which is that, in fact in some unspecified time in the future she was on steroids. Hopefully she cycles off of them earlier than June seventh, makes weight and pisses clear,” Peña continued.
