It's The Destination, not the Journey for Pena

A little more than 16 months is a long time to be on the sidelines for an athlete in her prime. Serving that sentence due to a knee injury is even more stressful when your sport is mixed martial arts. But Julianna Pena wasn’t worried if her knee would hold up for a 15-minute fight as she prepared to face Milana Dudieva in April. She had more pressing concerns.“Do I remember how to fight?” she recalled thinking that morning in Fairfax, Virginia. “Am I going to be able to g