Raquel Pennington on becoming champion, Drew Dober talks Saturday’s co-main vs. Renato Moicano

UFC Unfiltered with Jim Norton and Matt Serra

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Grappling, 868329, Brazilian Jui Jitsu, Combat, Jim Norton, Sambo, Dana White, Stand-up, Bjj, Sports, Fight, Mma, Sports News, Ufc, Zuffa, Striking, Fighting, Judo, Wrestling, News, Combat Sports, Boxing, Matt Serra, Comedy

4.5 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of UFC Unfiltered, Jim Norton and Matt Serra are joined by newly-crowned UFC women’s bantamweight champion Raquel Pennington and 15th-ranked lightweight Drew Dober. Nine days removed from a career-defining win over Mayra Bueno Silva for the vacant women’s bantamweight title, Pennington reflects on how much she has improved in the five years since her first title shot against Amanda Nunes. The latter part of the interview sees the champion assess the rest of the division — including her thoughts on Julianna Peña’s trash-talking ways and whether it’s reasonable to expect UFC newcomer Kayla Harrison to be able to cut down to bantamweight after competing well above the weight limit at both 145 and 155 pounds in the past. Shortly after Pennington’s interview, Drew Dober hops on the show for his fifth time as a guest on UFC Unfiltered. Dober previews his upcoming fight against Renato Moicano and discusses how the two match up going into Saturday night’s co-main event at the UFC APEX in Las Vegas.

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0:00.0	She's winning this fight. It seems pretty clear that she's one in this fight.
0:04.0	I have climbed mountains to get back here and for everybody who's chasing a dream and you have people telling you you can't do it,
0:10.0	stay believe in because that's exactly what I did.
0:13.0	Rochelle!
0:15.0	Rocky!
0:17.0	Paul!
0:20.0	Scary power there from Drew Dover and that's why I'm the number one
0:26.0	Lightway knockout artist in the world right now so we brought back to the setup
0:30.6	I'm smooth I'm natural and I'm having fun out here.
0:33.4	Crudova!
0:37.0	Welcome to UFC Unfiltered.
0:45.0	Please tell me that's on video.
0:48.0	I've never been happier.
0:50.0	I'm made for a fucking podcast.
0:53.0	That's dangerous!
0:55.0	Listen to me, Maybe it's from from Jiu Jitsu or Muay Thai, I don't know, but I'm very, very sore everywhere.
1:17.0	Hey, welcome to UFC on filter. Let's just start the show, bitching.
1:22.0	That's right. No, no no letting everybody know that like like
1:27.0	most champions I take my bumps that's what I wanted people to know yeah well, well listen, man, I think what we have in common is
1:36.4	we were both on the match today.
1:38.9	That's right.
1:39.8	An old visit to Camores and to open guard tripod sweeps and the smash passes into arm locks.
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