Two-time UFC ladies’s bantamweight champion Juliana Peña has achieved all there may be to perform in combined martial arts. She gained The Final Fighter 18, captured the bantamweight crown, misplaced it and gained it again. She’s fought the best degree 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 most likely profitable The Final Fighter since you needed to struggle 4 individuals and it was like a final girl standing kind of factor,” Peña mentioned. “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 expensive 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 at all times be the primary girl to win. It was additionally one thing that sort of put my identify on the map, sort 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 sort of my popping out get together the place I am saying, ‘Hey, that is me. I am Julianna.’ That can at all times be particular.”
Peña is anticipated to place her title on the road at UFC 316 on the Prudential Heart in Newark, New Jersey on June 7 towards No. 2 ranked Kayla Harrison.
