Pena: People want to see me fight Ronda Rousey
Julianna Pena Pena will next fight Milana Dudieva at UFC Fight Night 63 and is hoping for a future showdown with Ronda Rousey.
Coming off a dominating performance to win the Ultimate Fighter Season 18, fans and media believed Julianna Pena would make a strong showing in the woman’s bantamweight division. Unfortunately, Pena suffered an injury that would keep her out of the Octagon for almost 17 months, but is now poised to return.
Julianna Pena will next fight Milana Dudieva at UFC Fight Night 63 and is hoping for a future showdown with Ronda Rousey:
There is a real excitement and buzz about Pena’s first fight back and she believes it really comes down to a couple of key reasons why her return is so highly anticipated.
“There’s two things — first off I think everybody could see on the show that me and Ronda (Rousey) rubbed each other the wrong way and she kind of said some choice words about me that I wasn’t really happy about, such as I didn’t deserve to breathe the same air as Shayna Baszler. I regard that as a very arrogant comment, I wasn’t happy about it,” Pena said.
“Here’s the other thing — I destroyed every opponent I had on ‘The Ultimate Fighter,’ I finished everyone. A lot of the girls these days they’re going to decisions, they’re point-sparring, they’re not trying to finish each other. What they could see in me is I’m going for the kill every time. I’m trying to finish my opponents. I make it a gritty, ugly fight, the type of fight that needs to be made to hurt someone, to break their will, and to finish them.”