It’s been eight months since UFC bantamweight Aspen Ladd underwent ACL and MCL surgery, and she expects to return to the octagon in July. When she comes back, she hopes Julianna Pena will be standing across from her in the cage.
Pena is gunning to fight two-division champ Amanda Nunes, who earlier this month defended her featherweight title at UFC 259 with a lopsided win over Megan Anderson.
“I’m at the point now where I have a timeline of when I’ll be back, and by that time, I highly doubt that fight will have materialized, and it makes no sense for her to jump ahead and get the fight just because she’s talking a lot of trash, but you know how the game works,” Ladd told What the Heck.