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UFC On FOX 23 Scores Main Event Between Female Bantamweight Contenders

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Valentina Shevchenko and Julianna Pena will square off in the main event of UFC on FOX 23 this coming January.

Shevchenko (13-2) recently scored a win over former UFC female bantamweigh…

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Valentina Shevchenko and Julianna Pena will square off in the main event of UFC on FOX 23 this coming January.

Shevchenko (13-2) recently scored a win over former UFC female bantamweight champion Holly Holm, pushing her Octagon mark to 2-1 overall. Her only loss to date with the promotion came at the hands of current UFC titleholder Amanda Nunes.

Pena (8-2), a former winner of The Ultimate Fighter, has yet to taste defeat in four bouts with the UFC. That includes a summer victory over Cat Zingano.

UFC on FOX 23 takes place January 28 from the Pepsi Center in Denver. Along with Shevchenko-Pena, Hector Lombard battles Brad Tavares and J.C. Cottrell meets Jason Gonzalez.

Pivotal Bantamweight Bout Slated For UFC Denver Main Event

A pivotal fight in the UFC women’s bantamweight division has been confirmed, as the promotion has officially announced that No. 2-ranked Valentina “Bullet” Shevchenko will face off with with No. 3-ranked Julianna “Venezuelan Vixen” Pena in the main event of a UFC Fight Night card on Jan. 28, 2016 from Denver, Colorado. Shevchenko has won

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A pivotal fight in the UFC women’s bantamweight division has been confirmed, as the promotion has officially announced that No. 2-ranked Valentina “Bullet” Shevchenko will face off with with No. 3-ranked Julianna “Venezuelan Vixen” Pena in the main event of a UFC Fight Night card on Jan. 28, 2016 from Denver, Colorado.

Shevchenko has won six of her last seven bouts and is coming off of the most impressive victory of her career, which was a dominant unanimous decision victory over ex-champion Holly Holm last July. “Bullet” is 2-1 inside the Octagon with her only loss under the promotional banner coming against reigning 135-pound champ Amanda Nunes.

Pena, on the other hand, is a former The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) winner and she’s put together quite the impressive resume, as she currently sits at 4-0 in the UFC. Her most recent victories have come over notable names Jessica Eye and former title challenger Cat Zingano.

Pena has been campaigning hard for a title shot and the winner of this bout will likely take on the winner of Dec. 30’s title fight between Nunes and former longtime champion Ronda Rousey.

Tickets for UFC Denver are on sale now.

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Julianna Pena: Amanda Nunes Is Going to Knock Out ‘Mentally Weak’ Ronda Rousey

Julianna Pena is not happy about Ronda Rousey getting a title shot in her return fight. She is not happy one bit. 
After Rousey pleaded her case for months for a crack at Amanda Nunes’ UFC bantamweight title, UFC President Dana White told Fox Spor…

Julianna Pena is not happy about Ronda Rousey getting a title shot in her return fight. She is not happy one bit. 

After Rousey pleaded her case for months for a crack at Amanda Nunes’ UFC bantamweight title, UFC President Dana White told Fox Sports 1’s Colin Cowherd that Rousey, in fact, would receive the next title shot. The result? An absolute meltdown by Pena. Speaking with MMAFighting.com’s Danny Segura (warning, NSFW language), the winner of The Ultimate Fighter season 18 sounded off on Rousey. 

“It’s bulls–t,” Pena said. “That spoiled brat has gotten everything handed to her, and she’s getting everything handed to her again. It’s bulls–t.”

She continued on:

Never in the history have I ever heard of somebody have a no-controversy brutal knockout, then quit the sport, and then comeback and get a title shot right away. The girl is mentally weak and Amanda Nunes is going to f–king knock her out and expose her ass. She’s literally the worst fighter on the roster, and I can’t stomach the fact that I’m not getting the title shot.

While there’s an undeniable level of excitement about Rousey’s return, Pena’s gripes are legitimate. Pena owns a 4-0 record in the Octagon, with her most recent win being a unanimous decision victory over former title contender Cat Zingano. Before joining the UFC, she worked her way into the company through The Ultimate Fighter, where she scored wins over the likes of women’s MMA pioneer Shayna Baszler and current UFC fighter Sarah Moras.

It’s an impressive resume to be sure and, in most cases, would be good enough to earn a crack at the belt. The UFC, however, believes Rousey’s dominance from 2012 to 2015 warrants an immediate title shot, even after a year out of competition and even though her last fight was the devastating knockout loss to Holly Holm at UFC 193. 

That has Pena very, very mad. Mad enough, in fact, that she is looking to leave the company. 

“Maybe I’ll go fight for Combate [Americas] or something because it sounds like they want to pay me serious money and actually give me a belt right off the bat just like they did with Ronda in the UFC,” she said, referencing the Latin American promotion launched by UFC co-founder Campbell McLaren. “They just handed Ronda a belt and Combate will hand me a belt, so I don’t know, we’ll see how that goes.”

Rousey will make her return opposite Nunes at UFC 207, set for December 30 in Las Vegas. Pena’s next fight is a mystery at this time.

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Video: Julianna Pena Goes “Full Blast” For Tate vs. Nunes At UFC 200

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On the latest episode of UFC’s Ultimate Insider, which aired this week on FOX Sports 1, UFC Women’s Bantamweight contender for former TUF Champion Julianna Pena got mic’d up for the latest edition of “Full Blast.”

Featured above is the “Full Blast” segment featuring Pena mic’d up in the crowd during the UFC Women’s Bantamweight Championship match between Miesha Tate and Amanda Nunes from the historic UFC 200 event in July.

“Season 18 Ultimate Fighter winner and rising bantamweight star Julianna Pena is mic’d up for exclusive commentary as her former Ultimate Fighter coach and reigning champ Miesha Tate takes on Amanda Nunes at historic UFC 200.”

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On the latest episode of UFC’s Ultimate Insider, which aired this week on FOX Sports 1, UFC Women’s Bantamweight contender for former TUF Champion Julianna Pena got mic’d up for the latest edition of “Full Blast.”

Featured above is the “Full Blast” segment featuring Pena mic’d up in the crowd during the UFC Women’s Bantamweight Championship match between Miesha Tate and Amanda Nunes from the historic UFC 200 event in July.

“Season 18 Ultimate Fighter winner and rising bantamweight star Julianna Pena is mic’d up for exclusive commentary as her former Ultimate Fighter coach and reigning champ Miesha Tate takes on Amanda Nunes at historic UFC 200.”

Flashback To Nunes & Peña Agreeing To Title Fight In 2016

There is some documentation to back up Julianna Peña’s claim that Amanda Nunes agreed to fight her after UFC 200.

Julianna Peña’s warpath to a title shot against “The Lionness” Amanda Nunes will culminate in the battle tonight at UFC 269. One of Pe…

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There is some documentation to back up Julianna Peña’s claim that Amanda Nunes agreed to fight her after UFC 200.

Julianna Peña’s warpath to a title shot against “The Lionness” Amanda Nunes will culminate in the battle tonight at UFC 269. One of Pena’s many claims leading up to the fight is that Nunes was supposed to fight her all the way back in 2016 after Nunes defeated Miesha Tate for the title at UFC 200. As it happens, this claim is backed up with some documentation.

“Now that we know @RondaRousey isn’t coming back, I would love to, darling,” Nunes posted in a 2016 tweet directed at Peña.

At that moment of time, with the sacred space of Twitter bearing witness, we appeared to have a bout for the UFC female bantamweight title sealed.

However, Nunes would go on to fight Rousey after all at UFC 207 in one-sided beatdown while Peña lost to Shevchenko (and her title shot hopes) one month later.

At the time Nunes sent the above tweet in 2016, Peña was skeptical even then. She claimed that Nunes had been ducking her for two years at that point, a claim “The Venezeuan Vixen” would continue repeating in 2021. That means Peña has been accusing Nunes of ducking her for a total of seven years. 

“You have ducked me for 2 years. I’ll believe it when I see you on the otherside of the cage.”

Peña will be made into a believer tonight when she finally stands across the cage from Amanda Nunes tonight at UFC 269. Here’s another look at how long Peña has been wanting to fight Nunes in a video shared on the ESPN MMA Twitter page Friday night.

How do you see this five-year saga between Amanda Nunes and Julianna Peña concluding tonight at UFC 269?

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Pena Regrets Rousey “Fat Arms” Comment, Reminds Fans How Much Of A “B*tch” She Was

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When former Ultimate Fighter champion Julianna Pena spoke with TMZ.com last week, she claimed that “no one cares about Ronda Rousey and her fat arms anymore.” After she was flooded with criticism and hate mail from fans who pointed out that Rousey has had a history with body image issues and the eating disorder bulimia, she would sing a different tune, even if it was technically the same genre’ of music — insult-tunes.

Pena, who is coming off the biggest win of her professional MMA career, a victory over former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Title contender Cat Zingano at the historic UFC 200 event last month, spoke with MMAJunkie.com this week and admitted that she chose the wrong words, while still delivering some pretty harsh criticism of the former champion after reminding fans how she was treated by her when she competed opposite her team on TUF 18.

Pena, who won TUF 18 as part of Miesha Tate’s team, recalled “how much of a b*tch” Rousey was to her during the filming of the season.

“I think a lot of people have forgotten how rude and how much of a bitch she was to me on the show and the way that she treated me personally. Those are things that I don’t forget. She’s disrespected me, and she’s disrespected my coach on the show. They ask about her all the time – ‘is she coming back, is she coming back’ – and I don’t know. But I would love to introduce her back into the division if she is, because that’s been a fight that I’ve been trying to get for many years now.”

As Pena continued, she brought up Rousey’s boyfriend, UFC Heavyweight contender Travis “Hapa” Browne, who she referred to as a “giant” when questioning whether “Rowdy” Ronda is coming back to the Octagon, returning to training in the gym or “having that giant’s babies.”

“I think it was the wrong choice of words. What was in my head didn’t come out exactly the way I wanted it to through the media. I’m not trying to call her a fat person – I was basically commenting on how the media is always asking about her, whether she’s training or not, whether she’s coming back or not, whether she’s having that giant’s babies or not, and it’s so annoying at this point that I’m just like, forget about it. The buzz has died.

“I’m just saying the things that sometimes I feel these people are thinking. And the truth of the matter is, UFC, I’m sorry, she’s just not that into you. I am into the UFC, and I want to fight for the belt. This chick is standing in my way and teasing everyone whether she’s coming back or not, so I’ve had enough. I’ve literally had it up to here with this chick.”

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When former Ultimate Fighter champion Julianna Pena spoke with TMZ.com last week, she claimed that “no one cares about Ronda Rousey and her fat arms anymore.” After she was flooded with criticism and hate mail from fans who pointed out that Rousey has had a history with body image issues and the eating disorder bulimia, she would sing a different tune, even if it was technically the same genre’ of music — insult-tunes.

Pena, who is coming off the biggest win of her professional MMA career, a victory over former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Title contender Cat Zingano at the historic UFC 200 event last month, spoke with MMAJunkie.com this week and admitted that she chose the wrong words, while still delivering some pretty harsh criticism of the former champion after reminding fans how she was treated by her when she competed opposite her team on TUF 18.

Pena, who won TUF 18 as part of Miesha Tate’s team, recalled “how much of a b*tch” Rousey was to her during the filming of the season.

“I think a lot of people have forgotten how rude and how much of a bitch she was to me on the show and the way that she treated me personally. Those are things that I don’t forget. She’s disrespected me, and she’s disrespected my coach on the show. They ask about her all the time – ‘is she coming back, is she coming back’ – and I don’t know. But I would love to introduce her back into the division if she is, because that’s been a fight that I’ve been trying to get for many years now.”

As Pena continued, she brought up Rousey’s boyfriend, UFC Heavyweight contender Travis “Hapa” Browne, who she referred to as a “giant” when questioning whether “Rowdy” Ronda is coming back to the Octagon, returning to training in the gym or “having that giant’s babies.”

“I think it was the wrong choice of words. What was in my head didn’t come out exactly the way I wanted it to through the media. I’m not trying to call her a fat person – I was basically commenting on how the media is always asking about her, whether she’s training or not, whether she’s coming back or not, whether she’s having that giant’s babies or not, and it’s so annoying at this point that I’m just like, forget about it. The buzz has died.

“I’m just saying the things that sometimes I feel these people are thinking. And the truth of the matter is, UFC, I’m sorry, she’s just not that into you. I am into the UFC, and I want to fight for the belt. This chick is standing in my way and teasing everyone whether she’s coming back or not, so I’ve had enough. I’ve literally had it up to here with this chick.”