As the second round of the women's bantamweight title fight at UFC 269 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas unfolded, it looked by all appearances that it was about to get ugly for Julianna Peña. She found herself standing across from champion Amanda Nunes — widely proclaimed as the greatest women's MMA fighter in history — in a toe-to-toe slugfest.
Both women were landing cleanly.
One did not need to be an MMA expert and only needed to have seen Nunes' highlights to know that this wasn't good for Peña.
Or, at least, it shouldn’t have been good.