Raquel Pennington scoffs at Mayra Bueno Silva’s feedback: ‘I don’t know who she thinks she is’
Raquel Pennington thinks Mayra Bueno Silva may possibly possibly maybe be getting a runt bit of sooner than herself.
In the lead-as much as UFC 297, Silva has now not been afraid to downplay her strive in opposition to with Pennington and sit down up for a possible showdown with Julianna Peña. Pennington and Silva face off Saturday in the co-main occasion of UFC 297 with the vacant UFC bantamweight title on the line, nonetheless Silva made the graceful assertion at her UFC 297 media day on Wednesday that the bout may possibly possibly maybe now not be very unswerving “on paper.” When requested to develop on her thoughts, Silva argued that MMA fans would moderately mediate her strive in opposition to Peña for the belt than Pennington.
For Pennington, an 11-twelve months UFC faded whose first subject for the bantamweight title came in 2018, the remarks coming from her Brazilian counterpart are humorous.
“I don’t know who she thinks she is straight away,” Pennington stated at UFC 297 media day. “I’ve been in this sport for a extraordinarily very long time. I’ve been in the tip 10 for the bulk of my profession in the UFC. And for her to sit down right here [and talk trash] — they bear been hunting for one other opponent due to Julianna’s injured. It used to be presupposed to be me and Julianna.
“So for her to mediate that it’s presupposed to be her and Julianna — I love the sector she’s residing in, in her own mind, nonetheless she’s a runt bit of puzzled.”
Pennington, 35, is one in all the longest tenured bantamweights in the UFC females’s division. The discontinue-ranked faded first entered the UFC as a solid member on The Final Fighter 18 in 2013, the same season infamously hosted by Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate. Pennington has since fought 17 instances for the promotion, racking up 12 victories and defeating the likes of Tate, Jessica Andrade, Irene Aldana, Roxanne Modafferi, and most fair as of late Ketlen Vieira.
Pennington even served because the support-up fighter for the most recent UFC bantamweight title bout between old fashioned two-time champion Amanda Nunes and Aldana. Nunes indirectly defeated Aldana to portray her 11th take care of in a UFC title bout then retired, rendering the belt vacant and leaving Pennington as an glaring desire to compete for gold next.
All of which is enlighten that Pennington has paid her dues, so when she hears Silva deliver as she has with ideal three victories to her title as a UFC bantamweight, she unswerving laughs.
“Hear, she’s a personality. Accurate? The full issues that she’s pronouncing are in actuality lively me,” Pennington stated.
“On the tip of the day, I feel love she’s talking the entire crap, she’s looking for to deliver the entire issues — particular, possibly the fans are looking for to seek her strive in opposition to Julianna due to they each and every yap plenty. They deliver, and so every person needs to seek that. They esteem the leisure piece. That’s unswerving now not who I am, and I mediate the kids and the youthful generations who survey as much as me, and it’s now not about talking crap to each and every other and doing all the issues. On the tip of the day, a strive in opposition to is a strive in opposition to. Our fists are going to dwell the talking, so I don’t feel the need to spoil the further energy.
“But you know what? She’s right here now, so it is what it is.”
