UFC bantamweight champ Julianna Pena is thoroughly unimpressed by PFL’s Kayla Harrison. While Pena took on the arguable GOAT of women’s MMA in Amanda Nunes, Kayla stayed put in the PFL, and still has yet to take on, in Pena’s opinion, any elite opposition. On The MMA Hour, Julianna Pena even blamed Kayla Harrison for Amanda Nunes’ split from ATT, and blasted the PFL star for fighting “tomato cans”.
“How easy is it to say, ‘I’ll beat Julianna with one arm tied behind my back,’ and then sign a seven-year contract to PFL right after, the next day. It’s easy to talk s*** when you know nothing’s going to happen from it.
Pena Blasts Kayla Harrison for “Beating Tomato Cans”
So that’s my whole angle. Kayla’s just running her mouth because she knows nothing’s ever going happen of it, you know? She just signed her life away to PFL. So best of luck with that. I hope it’s good. Make your career off of beating tomato cans. That’s great.”
Kayla Harrison once told TMZ she could beat Julianna Pena with one arm, following Pena’s massive upset win over Amanda Nunes at UFC 268. Kayla Harrison sat cageside on that fateful day, and Pena wonders if she might have had something to do with Nunes leaving American Top Team in the aftermath.
“A part of me thinks that she’ll go back, but I was a little bit shocked to hear that she fired her entire team after losing a fight. That was pretty crazy.
I can tell you, during fight week, I saw one of her interviews during fight week, it was a few days before our fight and they were like, ‘Hey Amanda, how do you feel about the fact that Kayla Harrison is the team captain?’ And she was like, ‘What?’
It was news to her and you could tell how, like, visibly uncomfortable she was from the question, and she was like, ‘She’s not team captain. I’m team captain. That’s my [job].’ You know what I mean? And I saw the wheels turning. So it’s got to be one of those things where it’s like, the room wasn’t big enough for the two of them.
But at the same time, it’s like, you guys call each other friends, right? Like, you guys are constantly saying that you are friends and training partners, but then [Harrison] was so upset that I beat Amanda because then that means that she’s not going to fight Amanda?
So it’s like, who needs enemies with friends like these? It’s like, ‘We’re training partners, we’re friends, and now I’m devastated that you lost because now I can’t kick your ass.’
Like, what? Awkward.” Is Julianna Pena right about Kayla Harrison? Let us know in the comments.
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