UFC women’s bantamweight champion Julianna Pena is not impressed with the woman she dethroned. Amanda Nunes, after succumbing to a rear naked choke from Pena at UFC 269, fired her team. The rematch at UFC 277 is only just around the corner, and Pena told MMAMania that she was unimpressed to see one of the greatest fighters on the planet move on from a team she had been a part of for a decade.
“All the other stuff that she said, like, oh, I didn’t s—t talk and I was trying to get people to want to like me or something like that, I’m like, no, I’ve done the show before so I kinda know how the production goes.
Pena Rips Nunes For Firing Her Team After Title Loss
But with that being said, I already beat you. You hadn’t been submitted, you hadn’t been stopped, you had this title reign of the GOAT and you got embarrassed, and you got so frustrated that you fired your entire team. You quit your gym that you’d been at for 10 years, you had to go see a sport psychologist. Like, why kick a dog when it’s down? That’s just not my style, that’s not my character, and I already know how much it hurt her.”
Pena’s claim that her lack of trash talk on The Ultimate Fighter – which saw the bantamweights heading opposing teams – was because she was already a winner. Pena also pointed out that her fighters were soundly defeating Nunes’, so there was no reason to “pour salt on the wounds”.
“I’m not trying to pour salt on the wounds. She wants me to burn the church down too, it’s like it’s good, you know what I mean? I already did my trash-talking in the ring. There’s nothing really more for me to say.
Not to mention if you watch the season, I’m killin’ her! They can’t string a couple wins together to save their lives, she’s just literally not winning on the show either. What more do you want me to say? I feel bad. Not to say I’m going to hold back by any means in the rematch but it’s just [that] I don’t want to be this cocky arrogant prick, that I’m just constantly poking you while you’re down. That’s just not who I am. Most people would be thankful but she wants me to razz her.”
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