Julianna Pena and Khabib Nurmagomdev are not in a great place right now. The former UFC lightweight champion made some comments on Pena's win over Amanda Nunes and they were not appreciated.
Khabib Nurmagomedov was asked about the huge upset at UFC 269 and he did not have very nice things to say. Julianna Pena couldn't help but find herself heartbroken at the comments.
“I am like, we can watch what Julianna Peña did with Amanda Nunes [at UFC 269]. But Julianna Peña, she is not like the greatest or something like that. She just beat Amanda Nunes like [on the day]. We can watch not many good [female] fighters all around the world. There are only like five or six of them,” Nurmagomedov said at a press conference in December (h/t Clyde Aidoo of MMA News).
Julianna Pena recently fired back at the comments and explained why they hurt so much. The UFC bantamweight champion has a lot of admiration for the Russian.
“I saw in a presser that they asked [Khabib] a question and he was just completely downgrading the whole win and everything like that….it totally broke my heart…” Peña said on a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. “I was like, ‘Dude, you’re breaking my heart, man. Like, I freaking love you. Like, seriously.”
“He must be friends with Kayla Harrison or something. I don’t know. Because he was like, [MOCK KHABIB ACCENT] ‘If this is the top of women’s division, it’s a joke,” she added. “I mean, it wasn’t very nice. I didn’t appreciate it, Khabib.”
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