Overview

• Peña will make her first title defense since reclaiming the belt by beating Raquel Pennington at UFC307 in October when she meets Harrison on June 7 at Newark’s Prudential Center.
• Kayla Harrison enters the bout ranked No. 2 in the division after going 1–0 in her UFC debut and bringing a decorated Olympic judo pedigree to the octagon.
• Peña’s 2015 arrest in Spokane, Washington, stemmed from an alleged assault outside Zola’s pub, with two charges that each carried up to a year in jail and a $5,000 fine.
• A stipulation order of continuance allowed Peña to avoid conviction by staying out of legal trouble for a year, leading to the charges being dropped.
• The UFC suspended Peña during the court case and mandated counseling as a condition of her return, after which she refocused on her career and regained championship status.