Julianna Peña is talking a bit of trash before her upcoming UFC 289 fight against Amanda Nunes.
Last year, Nunes avenged her loss at Peña but Peña believes that she deserves credit for making Nunes become a wrestter.
During an appearance on Ariel Helwani’s ‘The MMA Hour’, Peña says she’s ready for Nunes’ tricks this time around.
“I definitely think that you’ve got to give credit where credit is due, and I outsmarted her the first time, she outsmarted me the second time,” Peña said on The MMA Hour. “But the reality is, is that there will be no more surprises, especially because we’ve shared 35 minutes inside the octagon together. I will be ready for Amanda whether she comes out southpaw, whether she comes out orthodox, whether she comes out on her head walking on her hands. I will be ready and I will have an answer for her every way.
“The surprises are gone. There’s no more surprises, and she’s going to have to fight me. I turned the greatest striker of all time into a wrestler who wanted to lay and pray on me because she didn’t want anything to do with me on the feet. She knows that if we’re going toe-to-toe and standing in the pocket that she’s going to lose that every single time, and I’ve got my money with me winning that fight every single time. But she was more strategic than me (in the rematch) – I give her that credit, absolutely. And then we’re going to go take it back June 10 to see who the real champion is, and it’s going to be me.”
Peña and Nunes are set to face off for a third time on June 10th in Vancouver at UFC 289.
