Julianna Pena has brought up an old call out from Ronda Rousey in an attempt to lure the retired UFC star into a fight.
Pena provided the biggest UFC upset of 2021 when she submitted two-weight champion Amanda Nunes at UFC 269 to win the bantamweight title.
The fight was Pena's first-ever shot at UFC gold and it also marked the consensus female 'GOAT' Nunes' first defeat in over seven years.
Pena admitted she didn't get along with Rousey when she appeared as a contest on season 18 of The Ultimate Fighter in 2013.
'The Venezuelan Vixen' was on Rousey's rival Miesha Tate's team during the season and was awarded a UFC contract after winning the competition.
And Pena said Rousey vowed to "kick her ass" one day after she won The Ultimate Fighter.
“We’re not friends, we don’t speak," Pena told The New York Post.
“She really had a tough time getting along with me on The Ultimate Fighter. She didn’t like me at all because I was friends with Miesha Tate. She wasn’t the nicest.”
“It would be amazing to pull Ronda Rousey back out of retirement. It would be great to have her come back to UFC and fight again.
“I don’t know that she’ll recall this because she ended up getting taken out by her entire team.
“But when we won ‘The Ultimate Fighter’ and got out of the house, she told me that, ‘You’re gonna give me a tougher fight than Miesha Tate, but when that day comes I’m still gonna kick your ass.'”
Rousey is considered a pioneer in women's MMA as she took part in the first women's fight in UFC history, submitting Liz Carmouche with her trademark armbar in 2013.
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'Rowdy' - an Olympic bronze medalist in judo - would go on to dominate her opponents in the UFC even winning two of her title defences in under 20 seconds.
But after going unbeaten in 12 fights, she finally met her match in 2015 when she was outclassed and brutally knocked by former boxing world titleholder Holly Holm.
She took a year away from the sport before returning against Nunes in an effort to win back her belt, but was knocked out in under a minute.
If Pena is to lure Rousey into a fight, it will likely have to wait as the champion is expected to rematch Nunes in her next fight.
UFC president Dana White even stated their second fight will will be the "biggest women's fight of all-time".
