Former UFC women’s bantamweight champ Julianna Peña isn’t one to take criticism lying down. Following Mayra Bueno Silva’s landmark submission win over Holly Holm over the weekend, Silva accused Peña of ducking her. Julianna Peña responded quickly, labelling Bueno Silva a “curtain jerker.”
“I thought I recognized her. I said, ‘Isn’t that curtain-jerker from the APEX like a few years ago?’ But yeah, then I remembered that she fought two 41-year-olds and then started talking bad about me, and I was like, ‘Oh yeah, I for sure know who this chick is.’
Julianna Peña Fires Back At “Curtain Jerker” Bueno Silva
Miesha Tate is someone to talk about. Holly Holm is someone to talk about. Those are legends. Mayra Bueno Silva, not so much. And yeah, impressed that she was literally losing the entire fight up until she caught that joke?
No, that’s not really impressive to me. In fact, doesn’t she have unfinished business with Miesha? Like, doesn’t she need to fight her?”
Peña continued, calling Bueno Silva Amanda Nunes’ “tampon holder” before blowing up about Bueno Silva’s comments on Peña’s upcoming fight against Raquel Pennington.
“Did you hear [Silva] said that she couldn’t beat Amanda? Talking to you, she said she couldn’t beat Amanda. But I, who’ve been chasing Amanda for the last seven years, am afraid of Amanda’s tampon holder?
I don’t understand how that works exactly. I’m literally giving you the beginning of the UFC, [Combate Global CEO] Campbell McLaren’s fight-four-people-in-one-night-offer opportunity.
I’m offering you to wait in line. I’ll wait for you in the cage after I beat Raquel, and I’ll fight you on the same night, and then you’re gonna sit there and say that I’m afraid of you? Like, GTFOH dude, I’m not having it.
She just did the right thing, and she’s trying to make some waves so that she can get a title fight. But the reality of the situation is that me and Raquel have had some bad blood brewing for the last 10 years since we were on The Ultimate Fighter together, and that fight’s got to come first, first and foremost.”
Julianna Peña claims that she, as the most recent title holder, has been guaranteed a shot at the belt in the wake of Amanda Nunes’ retirement.
Peña shocked the world when she defeated Nunes via second-round submission, earning the women’s bantamweight title in the process.
Peña lost the immediate rematch over the course of a very lopsided five-round fight, which saw Nunes dominate her to recapture the belt. Nunes then retired after her next title defense, a victory over Irene Aldana.
