Julianna Peña believed. She might have been the only one.
Peña entered Saturday night's UFC 269 co-main event as a 6½-to-1 betting underdog against Amanda Nunes, and who could argue with that? She was up against the greatest fighter in the history of women's MMA, and a two-division champion.
Amanda Nunes walked into T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas to defend her bantamweight championship. Now Nunes only owns the featherweight title.
That's because Peña did exactly what she had been saying she would do in the leadup to this bantamweight title fight. She said she would go right at Nunes.