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Raquel Pennington: Dana White, Joe Rogan Scored UFC 307 Title Loss To Julianna Pena For Me

MMA Fighting

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4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Former UFC women's bantamweight champion Raquel Pennington discusses her UFC 307 title loss to Julianna Pena, the controversy surrounding the scorecards, why she feels she won the first round, if there was frustration re-watching it, having new motivation, Kayla Harrison, a potential Amanda Nunes return, and more with MMA Fighting's Mike Heck.  Follow Mike Heck: @MikeHeck_JR Subscribe to MMA Fighting Check out our full video catalog Like MMA Fighting on Facebook Follow on Twitter Read More: http://www.mmafighting.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You have competitive fights,

0:05.0

competitive fights. They go to the decisions and it just takes that one person to take away everything from somebody.

0:12.0

And they don't realize, I feel like they just really don't realize what they're doing and they're yet they're the ones with the best seat in the house they're the ones that are supposed to be doing the best job and it's like it's crazy to me how every single social media outlet every single like there wasn't even another one that said peni you it was every single social media outlet said penington you know I've had numerous top athletes reach out to me.

0:35.2

I've had Dana White, freaking Hunter, Joe Roggan, John Anick, D.C. like everybody who's sitting

0:41.9

right there and everybody's just like, no way like we don't understand this nobody

0:45.9

understood it I didn't understand it like it was I mean they had my family

0:50.0

lined up ready to come in there and then when they announced it like they were like is Bruce

0:55.0

like playing a joke here like.

0:57.2

All right let us say hello to unfortunately the now former UFC women's van and way champion,

1:05.7

Rakell Pennington, I can just see the look of despair as she hears that, but she joins us less than

1:11.0

a week after the split decision loss, a controversial one at that to

1:15.0

Julianne Pena at UFC 307. Rochelle, thank you for doing this.

1:18.8

How are you?

1:19.8

I'm good.

1:20.8

How are you?

1:21.8

I'm good. It's never great to do interviews after a loss but here we are five days later you're

1:26.6

obviously quite confident you won the fight as are a lot of other people what is life like five days later as we speak? How has this been to digest

1:36.3

in Saturday? You know, I mean, I made the travel home and stuff and just initially after everything

1:42.3

was said and done, I've been in this

1:43.4

position before as far as going to the judges but I will tell you going into that

1:49.2

decision like I've never felt so confident especially a world world title fight, you know, it's kind of one of those situations where it's like you really have to beat the champ to be the champ and I do not feel like that was the situation at all.

2:01.0

You know, I've talked with the U.S.C. staff I've talked with multiple other

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