November 23, 2022 9: 30 pm ET
Go ahead and inform Kayla Harrison that Larissa Pacheco is her greatest competing, and she’ll be sure to set the record directly. That’s what she did throughout Wednesday’s 2022 PFL Championships press conference after commentator Sean O’Connell recommended as much.
“I suggest, can you call it a competition if you’ve neverever won a round?” Harrison stated. “I wear’t understand if that’s reasonable. I puton’t desire to put that kind of pressure on Larissa. It’s not a competition.”
Rivalry or not, Harrison (15-0) and Pacheco (18-4) are set to total a trilogy Friday at Hulu Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York, where their ladies’s light-weight title bout headings the ESPN+ pay-per-view as one of 6 $1 million finals matches to close out the PFL season. As Harrison keptinmind, the previous 2 encounters sanctuary’t been especially close.
Harrison veryfirst beat Pacheco in the 2019 PFL season opener by clean-sweep consentaneous choice (30-25, 30-27, 30-27). They fulfilled onceagain Dec. 31, 2019, with Harrison winning her veryfirst of 2 PFL females’s light-weight titles with another consentaneous choice – and onceagain Harrison swept the judges’ scorecards (50-43, 50-45, 50-45).
Both match lookedlike each other as Harrison, a