{"id":790,"date":"2023-07-17T22:32:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T21:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmanewswire.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2023-07-17T22:35:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T21:35:52","slug":"mayra-bueno-silvas-bold-challenge-calls-out-julianna-pena-and-demands-title-shot-following-upset-over-holly-holm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmanewswire.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/17\/mayra-bueno-silvas-bold-challenge-calls-out-julianna-pena-and-demands-title-shot-following-upset-over-holly-holm\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayra Bueno Silva&#8217;s Bold Challenge: Calls Out Julianna Pena and Demands Title Shot Following Upset Over Holly Holm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following her second-round submission upset over <strong>Holly Holm<\/strong> at UFC Vegas 77, <strong>Mayra Bueno Silva<\/strong> called out former UFC Bantamweight Champion <strong>Julianna Pena<\/strong> and went on to say she deserves a title shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, in calling out Pena, Mayra Bueno Silva said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cHey, Julianna Pena, let\u2019s go. I deserve this. You deserve this. The people deserve this. Plus they need a new face. I am the new face. I finish my fights. I did a show for everybody.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, in asking for a title shot, Mayra Bueno Silva continued saying:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;I do what I say. Now I want a belt because I deserve. Nobody finish like me. I deserve belt,&#8221; Bueno Silva said following the fight.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 31-year old Bueno Silva has won four consecutive fights and holds a 6-2-1 career record in the UFC, but is undefeated in the Bantamweight division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the UFC Bantamweight Championship vacated due to the retirement of <strong>Amanda Nunes<\/strong>, Bueno Silva definitely has to be looked at as a potential challenger after her high profile win against Holm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, with Bueno Silva\u2019s mediocre flyweight career, matchmakers will probably make her earn another victory before giving into a title shot. A fight against another top 10 opponent, such as <strong>Ketlen Vieira<\/strong> or <strong>Irene Aldana<\/strong>, would be exciting to watch and propel her to the top 5 of the UFC Women\u2019s Bantamweight division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for the title fight, the UFC has to be looking at a match between <strong>Raquel Pennington<\/strong> vs. <strong>Julianna Pena<\/strong>, pending the health of Pena and whenever it fits on an upcoming card. Pennington is already making some noise about the potential matchup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Me vs Julianna got the world title!!!! Dana always thought from TUF we would face each other at the finale. Wasn\u2019t the journey then but here we are now!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danawhite?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@danawhite<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mickmaynard2?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Mickmaynard2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ufc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ufc<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Raquel Pennington (@RockyPMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockyPMMA\/status\/1667759872408969217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following her second-round submission upset over Holly Holm at UFC Vegas 77, Mayra Bueno Silva called out former UFC Bantamweight Champion Julianna Pena and went on to say she deserves a title shot. First, in calling out Pena, Mayra Bueno Silva said: \u201cHey, Julianna Pena, let\u2019s go. I deserve this. You deserve this. The people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[91,55,94,90,92,56,95,50],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmanewswire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmanewswire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmanewswire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmanewswire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmanewswire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmanewswire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":794,"href":"https:\/\/mmanewswire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/794"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmanewswire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmanewswire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmanewswire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmanewswire.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}