{"id":391663,"date":"2022-06-09T18:21:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=391663"},"modified":"2022-06-09T18:21:35","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:21:35","slug":"they-werent-expecting-me-to-win-julianna-pena-on-ufc-president-dana-white-watching-her-defeat-golden-goose-amanda-nunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/they-werent-expecting-me-to-win-julianna-pena-on-ufc-president-dana-white-watching-her-defeat-golden-goose-amanda-nunes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They Weren\u2019t Expecting Me to Win&#8217;- Julianna Pena on UFC President Dana White Watching Her Defeat &#8216;Golden Goose&#8217; Amanda Nunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In conversation with Barstool Chicago, UFC bantamweight champion Julianna Pena made a massive speculation about UFC President Dana White. Per Pena, White and the UFC brass were not too pleased that their \u2018golden goose\u2019 in Amanda Nunes was defeated by the \u2018Venezuelan Vixen\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Coming in as a massive underdog, Pena submitted the near-invincible Amanda Nunes after she gassed out in round two. Julianna Pena was able to find a home for nearly all the punches she threw, and she ended up submitting \u2018The Lioness\u2019 via RNC without even sinking in both hooks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PJ6CcoLtl50\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/ufc-legend-georges-st-pierre-breaks-down-the-path-to-victory-for-both-glover-teixeira-and-jiri-prochazka-in-his-latest-social-media-post\/\">UFC Legend Georges St-Pierre Breaks Down the Path to Victory for Both Glover Teixeira and Jiri Prochazka in His Latest Social Media Post<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Julianna Pena speaks her mind<\/h2>\n<p>\u2018The Venezuelan Vixen\u2019 is as outspoken as they come and she claimed that the UFC was disappointed that Nunes was no longer the champion as it negatively impacted them on a financial scale. Additionally, she said that the top brass of the UFC had their jaws on the floor once they saw Amanda Nunes was finally dethroned in spectacular fashion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-391665 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/NUN-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/NUN-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/NUN-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/NUN-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/NUN-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/NUN-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/06\/NUN-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI think he has, yeah. But, I also think that you know, he\u2019s a little bit bummed that his little golden goose got tapped out. Of course, it\u2019s so much better for them financially to have this girl who\u2019s never been beaten in seven years, never been tapped out, never lost, and has belts in two weight classes, she\u2019s fought the who\u2019s who of the division and she\u2019s slayed all those giants.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-D1PZFFFU98\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOf course, they\u2019re not thinking I have a chance and they want her to win because it looks better for the promotion, it looks better for the UFC,\u201d Pena continued. \u201cThey weren\u2019t expecting me to win. I literally looked at them after the fight and all of their jaws are to the floor. I was like, sorry to ruin your day guys, sorry but what am I going to do? It\u2019s not anything that\u2019s rigged by any means it\u2019s up to the individual.\u201d [h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/ufc\/julianna-pena-claims-dana-white-was-bummed-that-she-beat-amanda-nunes-his-little-golden-goose-got-tapped-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bjpenn.com<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Pena and Nunes will soon rematch after filming \u2018The Ultimate Fighter\u2019 successfully and all eyes will be on Pena to see if she can pull off the win again the defend her belt. \u2018The Lioness\u2019 looked to be virtually unbeatable and the rematch will bring forth a lot of frenzied excitement amongst fight fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In conversation with Barstool Chicago, UFC bantamweight champion Julianna Pena made a massive speculation about UFC President Dana White. Per Pena, White and the UFC brass were not too pleased that their \u2018golden goose\u2019 in Amanda Nunes was defeated by the \u2018Venezuelan Vixen\u2019. Coming in as a massive underdog, Pena submitted the near-invincible Amanda Nunes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":391664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufc"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}