This coming weekend at UFC 307 in Salt Lake City, Utah, the ladies’s bantamweight title picture plays out in an unofficial tournament with the winners likely fighting one another next.
Raquel Pennington is about to make the primary defense of her UFC women’s bantamweight title within the co-main event this coming Saturday as she takes on the returning Julianna Pena.
Also on the blockbuster card is Kayla Harrison‘s second fight under the UFC banner as she is about to tackle Ketlen Vieira in what is probably going a title eliminator fight, with some believing she must be fighting for the title as an alternative of Pena.
Kayla Harrison reacts to Julianna Pena’s planned post-fight callout
‘The Venezuelan Vixen’ isn’t in need of confidence, and for months now, she has been throwing accusations at Harrison, claiming she is on Performance Enhancing Drugs.
Not only that, but Pena has already stated that if she beats Pennington and reclaims her title, she is going to call for a trilogy fight against Amanda Nunes, labeling it as the largest fight in women’s UFC history.
Nonetheless, if Harrison picks up a win over the Brazilian contender, Vieira, she is going to undoubtedly secure herself a title shot, no matter Pena’s hopes for a trilogy.
“After all I’m (a much bigger fight for legacy), yeah, I feel that if Julianna wins this fight against Raquel, she’s probably gonna try to be inactive and push to have Amanda come back and so it’s like, she’s attempting to avoid the inevitable, I wouldn’t wanna fight me either, I get it,” Harrison told ShakMMA.
“She’s calling out Amanda, she’s saying I’m on steroids… Julianna doesn’t have a win over someone in the highest 15 straight away… What has she been doing, she’s had two years off, coming off a loss now she’s gonna get her fight for the title, she’s been blessed with this gift after which she’s gonna run around, her time is coming,” Harrison added.
Kayla Harrison shall be the official backup for UFC 307 co-main event
Despite the proven fact that Harrison is scheduled to fight Vieira on the identical night, the 34-year-old has revealed that she shall be the official backup for the title fight in case one in all the fighters misses weight or withdraws over fight week.
With that, ‘Rocky’ Pennington claimed in an interview with MMAJunkie recently that she has tailored her fight camp to arrange for each Pena and Harrison due to Pena’s ‘history of getting injured’.
Pena missed out on her desired trilogy against ‘The Lioness’ back in June last 12 months after injuring her shoulder and there have been two previous occasions during Pena’s UFC tenure that she has withdrawn from a fight due to injury.
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