This Saturday Julianna Pena takes part in the biggest fight of her career when she takes on Valentina Schevchenko in the main event of UFC on Fox 23. The winner of the fight will most likely be the next challenger for UFC bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes.

Shevchenko made a statement to the entire fight world with a win over Holly Holm in her last bout. A fight that Julianna Pena watched very closely. She believes Holm exposed some major holes in Schevchenko’s game. She recently aired her views in an interview with MyMMANews.

“I thought it was a great point-sparring match, and I think (Holly) was able to expose some holes in Shevchenko’s game,” Pena said. “She knocked her down once. Unfortunately, Holly doesn’t have the ground skill to follow up after she knocked her down and didn’t want to go to the ground with her, so they just got back up on the feet, started to continue to dance around the ring and whatever it is they do. But at the end of the day, they’re both really great strikers and it’s a mixed-martial-arts fight, and it’s not gonna be a muay thai fight or a karate fight… I just gotta stick to my game plan, stick to what I do best, and trust in my training. That’s what I plan on doing.”

UFC on Fox 23 takes place this Saturday January 28, 2017 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado.

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