If facing Kayla Harrison wasn’t a difficult enough task by itself, Julianna Pena did so at a diminished capacity.
Pena, who relinquished the bantamweight crown in a second-round submission defeat to Harrison in the UFC 316 co-main event on June 7, revealed the extent of her ailments during a recent appearance on "The Ariel Helwani Show."
"I was plagued with several injuries leading up to that fight, and it was not a good camp for me in that sense because I knew I was going into the fight with a pretty severe handicap,” Pena said.