Raquel Pennington (6-5) vill möta alla som hon har förlorat mot för att kunna bevisa att hon har utvecklats och komma närmare sitt mål.
Pennington vill väldigt gärna möta Leslie Smith (7-6-1), Cat Zingano (9-1) och Holly Holm (10-0) igen, men hon vill även möta fighters ur topp 10.
“I want to fight everyone I did lose to,” berättade Pennington för MMAjunkie. “There’s Leslie Smith, there’s Cat Zingano or a rematch against Holly. With that being said, I also will take any fight against any girl in the top-10. I’m working my way up the ladder and so are the other girls.
“My main focus is, yeah, I have a 6-5 record and I’ve fought the top women in the world, but I don’t want a 6-5 record. I want to go out there and clean it up and prove I’m the better fighter than the people I’ve lost to.”
Pennington förlorade en match mot Jessica Andrade (13-5) på UFC 171 via delat domslut, men fick en chans att möta Andrade igen på UFC 191 och vann den matchen via rear naked choke i andra ronden.
“I’m always improving,” Pennington said about the difference between the two fights with Andrade. “I pretty much just live in the gym and always grow. You can never absolutely be 100 percent great at the sport. There’s too many curveballs.”
Pennington vill aldrig låta en match gå tiden ut och lägga den i päongdomarnas händer igen, då hon både förlorat matcher mot Andrade och Holm via delat domslut och hennes ultimata mål är att vinna bantamviktstiteln.
“Every fight is a stepping-stone; my ultimate goal at the end of the day is to become a world champion,” sa Pennington. “I’m doing this revenge tour thing where I want to go back. I believe I’m a better fighter than the girls I have lost to. I fought a ton of opponents in the top-10 in the world and I’ve never taken an easy fight.
“To go back and avenge one loss (against Andrade), especially with the statement I made, I said I’m never going to let a fight go to the judges again and that’s my ultimate goal and that’s what I did.”
