Julianna Peña lost ‘big chunk’ of forehead, needed surgery after bloody loss to Amanda Nunes
Julianna Peña wanted cosmetic surgery following Saturday’s bantamweight championship defeat to Amanda Nunes at UFC 277.
Nunes scored a resounding unanimous decision in 5 rounds to reclaim the belt that Peña took from her at UFC 269 in December. Within the later rounds, Nunes repeatedly attacked Peña’s brow with elbows and fists. The assaults opened a gash in Peña’s brow that UFC president Dana White mentioned required surgical procedure instantly after the struggle.
“Julianna’s bought an enormous chunk lacking from her brow,” White told reporters after the struggle. “She’s going to see a plastic surgeon proper now.”
White declined to supply a prognosis or timetable for her return.
“Take a while to heal, after which I don’t know,” White continued. “She bought fairly banged up tonight. It was like 5 or 6 knockdowns within the first two rounds. She was harm. She must take a while off, chill out, spend a while along with her daughter after which we’ll go from there.”
Peña defeated Nunes via submission at UFC 269 to say the bantamweight championship in one of the biggest upsets in UFC history. Nunes responded on Saturday by dominating each spherical of the rematch that judges scored 50-45, 50-44, 50-43 in her favor.
After her earlier submission loss, Nunes declined on Saturday to observe Peña to the bottom following knockdowns within the struggle’s early rounds. However she shifted her technique late and took the struggle to the mat, the place she delivered the blows that opened up the gash in Peña’s brow.
Peña by no means relented and managed to problem Nunes with a number of submission makes an attempt. However Nunes escaped all of them and was by no means threatened in any other case through the struggle. She advised reporters after her win that she believes she might have completed Peña, however needed to struggle to go the space to exhibit her dominance.
“I might have completed her, however I needed to go 5 rounds along with her tonight to show I used to be higher than her,” Nunes said. “I might have gone six, seven rounds.”
