Former UFC girls’s bantamweight champion Juliana Pena absolutely helps the current U.S. navy motion in Venezuela that led to the arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
President Maduro was captured in a single day on January 3 following a bombing marketing campaign by the US navy in Caracas ordered by President Donald Trump. Like different navy operations, this operation has been the topic of intense criticism each in the USA and overseas.
Peña, a “Venezuela girl” who was born in the USA and has Venezuelan heritage, absolutely helps this. She believes most Venezuelans share that view.
“I feel the vast majority of Venezuelans, most likely about 90, 95 %, are very enthusiastic about this,” Pena mentioned in a current interview. “They’re not an oppressed folks and they’re actually glad and excited that Venezuela is lastly free.
“Everybody is aware of that Mr. Maduro was an illegitimate president,” Pena added. “Nobody acknowledged him as the actual president. Make Venezuela nice once more.”
Julianna Pena within the UFC
Juliana Pena joined the UFC after showing on the truth present The Final Fighter. She wasn’t sizzling or chilly early in her Octagon profession, however she shocked the world in December 2021 by submitting Amanda Nunes for the UFC girls’s bantamweight belt.
Pena’s title reign was very short-lived. After her win over Nunes, which some thought was a fluke, she was booked for a rematch with the previous champion. The struggle went very otherwise, with Nunes successful a five-round bout to win a unanimous resolution and regain the belt.
After Nunes retired, Peña defeated Raquel Pennington by resolution to regain the vacant title. Nonetheless, she then misplaced her first title protection to former PFL champion Kayla Harrison.
Like many UFC fighters, she has been an outspoken defender of Donald Trump all through his presidential time period.
