SALT LAKE CITY – Julianna Pena feels she’s carrying the promotion of her UFC ladies’s bantamweight title combat with Raquel Pennington this Saturday, and he or she made certain to let the world know.
Each Peña (11-5 MMA, 7-3 UFC) and Pennington (16-8 MMA, 13-5 UFC) received right into a heated forwards and backwards at Thursday’s UFC 307 press convention, primarily initiated by “The Venezuelan Vixen.” Pennington, who makes her first title protection, wasn’t pleased with the a number of photographs thrown her manner.
“You’re a warrior, and you’ve got coronary heart, however guess what? I’m a warrior, I’ve coronary heart, and this entire “Pitbull” discuss? You’re only a yapie-ass chihuahua who’s in entrance of someone’s face,” Pennington stated.
Peña was fast to the microphone and responded by saying she’s had no alternative however to stir the pot, accusing Pennington of not correctly selling their combat.
“Talking of chihuahua, I really feel like as a result of I instructed her that she’s a foul illustration of the ladies’s division, that she’s had no alternative however to speak,” Peña stated. “That is probably the most you’ve ever heard Raquel Pennington converse within the historical past of Raquel Pennington. I’ve to carry that out in her so as to get individuals within the combat as a result of no one else is on this block of wooden right here. She’s boring.”
You possibly can watch their entire trade within the video above.
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