It wasn’t easy for Raquel Pennington to share the UFC 297 fight card with Sean Strickland. UFC 297 featured former middleweight champ Strickland against Dricus Du Plessis in the main event, while Pennington and Mayra Bueno Silva co-headlined the card with the vacant women’s bantamweight title on the line.
Mayra Bueno Silva believes an injury suffered during her championship clash against Raquel Pennington led to her defeat. Silva (10-3) took on Pennington (16-8) in the co-main event at UFC 297 with the vacant Ultimate Fighting Championship women’s bantamweight title on the line.
This past Saturday night in the co-main event of UFC 297, a new women’s bantamweight champion was crowned. With Amanda Nunes retiring last year, Raquel Pennington (16-8) and Mayra Bueno Silva (10-3-1, 1 NC) battled it out for the vacant bantamweight championship.
The finish line could be in sight for 18-time UFC veteran Raquel Pennington. But first, she has a couple more goals to accomplish. Pennington captured the vacant women’s bantamweight title with a clear-cut unanimous decision victory over Mayra Bueno Silva in the UFC 297 co-main at the Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on Saturday night.
The promotion might have found its main event for UFC 300
The first title fight on the UFC 297 card featured a women's bantamweight collision between Raquel Pennington and Mayra Bueno Silva. Pennington and Silva had a little bit of beef going into this one.
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Mayra Bueno Silva believes upcoming opponent Raquel Pennington will quit in their upcoming title fight. Bueno Silva will face Pennington in the co-main event at UFC 297 on Jan.
While Raquel Pennington never fought Julianna Pena on season 18 of “The Ultimate Fighter” in 2013, it appears the two are on a collision course 10 years later.
A battle between top-five Ultimate Fighting Championship bantamweights will go down on its first fight card of 2023. MMA Fighting first reported the news on Thursday that Ketlen Vieira (13-2) will be squaring off with Raquel Pennington (14-8) at the UFC Fight Night event on Jan.
Raquel Pennington built her reputation on grit, craft and unshakeable determination. The well-traveled 33-year-old will tackle Aspen Ladd in a sneaky showdown
Pennington enters the matchup with Ladd on a three-bout winning streak.
Pennington informed USADA on Nov. 17 that she had inadvertently used two prohibited drugs while taking prescribed medications to treat an unspecified medical condition.
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