{"id":276487,"date":"2018-05-15T06:59:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T13:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=276487"},"modified":"2018-05-15T06:59:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T13:59:05","slug":"raquel-pennington-breaks-silence-on-ufc-224-corner-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/raquel-pennington\/raquel-pennington-breaks-silence-on-ufc-224-corner-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Raquel Pennington breaks silence on UFC 224 corner controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside id=\"zUvd9m\">\n<div class=\"c-read-more\">\n<p>Raquel Pennington&#8217;s long-awaited shot at Amanda Nunes and the UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight title, which headlined UFC 224 last Saturday night, did not go the way she planned. Instead, she was thumped to a fifth-round stoppage by the champ Nunes.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Pennington&#8217;s dashed title dreams were also accompanied by a significant dose of controversy, as she appeared to be forced off her stool by her corner between the fourth and fifth rounds after telling her coaches, point-blank, that she was &#8220;done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the firestorm of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/amanda-nunes\/amanda-nunes-says-raquel-penningtons-corner-failed-at-ufc-224\/\">criticism<\/a> Raquel Pennington&#8217;s coaches have endured, the fighter herself says she supports their decision to send her out for a fifth round of battle.<\/p>\n<p id=\"EOE3PX\">\u201cI\u2019m actually proud of my coaches,\u201d Pennington said on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zf1N-ffUabA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The MMA Hour<\/a> this week (transcribed by Shaun Al-Shatti for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/5\/14\/17353608\/raquel-pennington-opens-up-about-coachs-decision-to-not-stop-ufc-224-fight-against-amanda-nunes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cI know a lot of people are going against what they said and thinking all this different stuff, and it\u2019s easy to judge, but you never know what\u2019s happening in that moment. At the end of the day, my coaches know me best. They know my toughness and they know what I can handle, and I trust my coaches with everything that I have, and I know they wouldn\u2019t put me in a situation that I can\u2019t handle. I was going through a moment where I was obviously frustrated because of the facts with my legs. I was scared to step in and actually let my hands go, because the minute I would start to close the distance, Amanda would attack the leg.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"pUV8PF\">\u201cThose initial kicks really got me to a point where I started to break for a second, and the minute that I turned around and told my coaches that, and then I actually turned around and looked at my head coach and looked him in the eyes, I knew it still had it within me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pennington continued, clarifying that she agreed with her coaches the moment the fight was over.<\/p>\n<p id=\"HjHVGj\">\u201cI agreed with my coaches as soon as the fight was done,\u201d she said. \u201cI agreed with them in that moment, because at the end of the day, the ball\u2019s still in my court. I could\u2019ve easily waved off the fight. I could\u2019ve sat down and tapped out. But I choose not to. I choose to pull my head out of my ass, basically, and not give up on myself. Because at the end of the day, when you give up, it\u2019s a whole different ballgame there. Quitting\u2019s not an option in that aspect, and in that moment, I was quitting on myself. And that\u2019s when a coach steps in and they push their athlete.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of the controversy surrounding Raquel Pennington&#8217;s corner at UFC 224?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 5\/15\/2018.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raquel Pennington&#8217;s long-awaited shot at Amanda Nunes and the UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight title, which headlined UFC 224 last Saturday night, did not go the way she planned. Instead, she was thumped to a fifth-round stoppage by the champ Nunes. Unfortunately, Pennington&#8217;s dashed title dreams were also accompanied by a significant dose of controversy, as she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":272381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10555],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Raquel Pennington breaks silence on UFC 224 corner controversy | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Raquel Pennington, who came up short against bantamweight champ Amanda Nunes in the main event of UFC 224, breaks her silence on the controversy surrounding her corner in the fight.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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