Julianna Peña

The full fight card for July’s UFC 277 pay-per-view was revealed during the UFC Vegas 55 broadcast, and the main event will feature the highly anticipated bantamweight title rematch between champion Julianna Peña and Amanda Nunes. It had already been confirmed that Peña and Nunes would fight at the conclusion of the current season of…

UFC Women’s Flyweight Champion Valentina Shevchenko has detailed what the key to victory will be for Amanda Nunes when she faces Julianna Peña again. When Nunes next enters the Octagon, it’ll be in a unique scenario: avenging a loss and re-capturing a title. The woman responsible for dragging the “Lioness” off the two-division throne is…

UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Julianna Peña believes now is the time for her previous doubters to hop over the fence and back her. Leading into the final pay-per-view of 2021, Peña was seen by most as little more than the latest prey for a “Lioness” who’d dominated everyone before her for years. With perhaps the…

UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Julianna Peña believes there’s a stark difference in the male and female motivation for fighting. For the past 13 years, Peña has competed as a professional mixed martial artist. Having been through the ups and downs of the sport, “The Venezuelan Vixen” currently finds herself at the top of the mountain,…

Julianna Peña was ready to welcome Kayla Harrison to the UFC but wasn’t confident about the chances of her signing in free agency. Harrison re-signed with the PFL after the league matched an offer from Bellator in free agency earlier this year. She had been in discussions with the UFC, Bellator, and PFL as she…

UFC Women’s Flyweight Champion Valentina Shevchenko isn’t short of confidence ahead of potential rematches with Amanda Nunes and Julianna Peña. Shevchenko is slated to face Taila Santos in her next flyweight title defense at UFC 275. The event will take place in Singapore and be headlined by a light heavyweight title fight between Glover Teixeira…

UFC women’s bantamweight champion Julianna Peña doesn’t consider herself a real champion just yet. Peña finished Amanda Nunes at UFC 269 back in December via second-round submission to capture the 135-pound throne. Now, Peña will coach opposite Nunes on The Ultimate Fighter 30 on ESPN+. After which, the pair will rematch for the title, which…

It seems there is no love lost between former opponents Valentina Shevchenko and Julianna Peña, at least not on the side of the UFC Women’s Flyweight Champion. Shevchenko and Peña shared the Octagon in the main event of UFC on FOX 23 back in 2017. At the time, neither woman held gold. While “Bullet” was…

UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Julianna Peña made an appearance on Good Morning America on Monday to promote the new season of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF). Yesterday, the 30th season of The Ultimate Fighter premiered, with Julianna Peña and Amanda Nunes serving as the head coaches. The season will help build and hype the highly anticipated…

UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Julianna Peña is ready to adopt a new nickname should she secure a second consecutive victory over Amanda Nunes. At UFC 269 last December, then-double champion Nunes faced the sixth challenge to her 135-pound reign. In what most expected to be an inevitable 13th straight victory for the Brazilian, the “Lioness”…