April 17, 2024 6: 30 pm ET
At UFC 300, the winner who may haveactually made the mostsignificant immediate effect on a department was Kayla Harrison.
Harrison (17-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC), a two-time $1 million winner in the PFL and a two-time Olympic gold medalist in judo, took out previous UFC females’s bantamweight champ Holly Holm (15-7 MMA, 8-7 UFC) with outright ease. She outstruck her 68-7, had almost a complete round of control time, and sent Holm in the 2nd round.
Considering Harrison neverever had combated at 135 pounds and had just been down as low as 145 assoonas, the outcome was a huge one for a department that justrecently saw longtime champ Amanda Nunes retire. Harrison anticipated a UFC title before the end of the year, and assoonas 135-pound champ Raquel Pennington returns, mostlikely versus previous champ Julianna Peña, the dust might