Norma Dumont hints at fight with former UFC champion next
Norma Dumont hints at fight with former UFC champion next
Norma Dumont sees a former UFC champion as her ticket to a bantamweight title shot.
Dumont (12-2 MMA, 8-2 UFC) is on a five-fight winning streak, most recently picking up a bloody win over former title challenger Irene Aldana at UFC 306 last September. She is chomping at the bit for her title shot and sees herself as one fight away from making it happen.
The Brazilian is expecting to draw former UFC bantamweight champion Raquel Pennington (16-10 MMA, 13-6 UFC) next.
"I think that the fight that makes sense for me and for the UFC is Raquel Pennington," Dumont told MMA Junkie through an interpreter. "I think for me, that's the fight that would really put me in title contention."
Pennington lost her bantamweight title to Julianna Peña in her most recent outing at UFC 307. Prior to that, she was on a six-fight winning streak with wins over the likes of Ketlen Vieira, Mayra Bueno Silva, and Macy Chiasson, who holds a win over Dumont in the UFC.
"For sure she's strong, she's tough, but I think I'm technically better," Dumont said of Pennington. "I'm faster, I'm stronger. I think this is a fight where we'll get up there, and we'll bang. It's what the UFC wants to see, and I feel really good about this fight."
If Dumont can get past Pennington, she'll have to wait for the winner of the expected matchup between UFC bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison and Amanda Nunes.
"It's an interesting fight," Dumont said of Harrison vs. Nunes. "It could go either way. It really depends on how Amanda's been training. We can't really tell. We're going to have to find out in the fight. I think that both of them have a tendency to fade after the third round, so it depends on who's going to manage to get a finish."
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