UFC women’s bantamweight champ Julianna Pena made headlines first with a massive upset win over Amanda Nunes. She hit the headlines once more when she called COVID-19 a “conspiracy”, but since contracting the virus herself, is now backtracking on those comments, and doubling down in her support for Joe Rogan.
Speaking to the media ahead of UFC 271, Pena expressed her regret over her COVID-19 comments. “I can’t speak for Joe, I can only speak for myself and I took a little heat on that as well.
Juilanna Pena Apologizes for COVID comments, Supports Joe Rogan
And what I mean to say is, once again, my words were a little bit misconstrued. I am tired, I am exhausted. We are going on this pandemic two years going on three years now, I just want things to go back to normal.
I realize that they probably won’t but I didn’t mean to come across as insensitive, especially for the fact that I had COVID. Everybody that I know had COVID. I lost my aunt in Venezuela, I lost many people that were near and dear to me.
It absolutely is real. I’m just angry and frustrated and exhausted over the whole situation because I just am wanting things to go back to normal. And so if I offended anybody by my comments on COVID, please I would like to apologize. That was not by any means what I meant to say.
I just meant to say that I’m frustrated with the way that the world is right now.” Pena also expressed her support for Joe Rogan against those “trying to cancel him”. “But they’re trying to cancel him because of what his feelings are on the whole matter.
They’re trying to dig up everything that they can. They’re trying to find any negative thing that they can to try to cancel him because of his original message.
I can’t speak for Joe, I don’t know how his thoughts are, me being still learning in the process, I think that he was trying to divert away from that when I was on the thing and I just kept getting right back to it and hammering it.
My sister’s like, ‘You can’t read a room? This guy’s literally trying to tell you “let’s quit talking about this.”’ So now I feel like I can’t say how I really feel about anything because they’re just gonna find a way to make a headline.
So now I’m just like, keep it PG, Julianna. Just keep it PG.” Pena is widely expected to see the Octagon again soon for a rematch against Amanda Nunes, the champ she dethroned at UFC 269 in December.
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