Typically drawing comparisons to inaugural bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey throughout her blended martial arts profession, incoming UFC 307 star, Kayla Harrison has admitted that whereas the Riverside native holds a posh legacy within the sport — she paved a approach for her feminine counterparts.
Harrison, a former two-time PFL (Skilled Fighters League) light-weight event winner and two-time Olympic gold medal victor, is slated to return to motion at first of subsequent month, making her sophomore Octagon stroll in a showdown with Ketlen Vieira.
Making her long-anticipated bow within the promotion on the preliminary card of UFC 300 earlier this yr, Harrison took out common-foe, Holly Holm with a dominant second spherical rear-naked choke win, touchdown herself because the quantity three rank within the division.
Kayla Harrison points props to Ronda Rousey for smashing MMA ceiling for ladies
And forward of her anticipated title-eliminator in opposition to Brazilian star, Vieira subsequent month in Salt Lake Metropolis, Harrison mentioned the legacy of former bantamweight gold holder, Rousey within the sport, whereas sustaining she smashed the ceiling for fighters of the feminine selection.
“I believe for me, regardless of who Ronda (Rousey) is as an individual and it doesn’t matter what she says or thinks or how she does issues or how she handles losses, who she handles any of it, it doesn’t matter what, you can not deny the very fact she shattered a ceiling for ladies,” Kayla Harrison advised MMA Preventing. Dana White went on file a number of occasions saying he would by no means have ladies within the UFC. She f*cking blasted proper by that.”
“To me, that’s her legacy,” Kayla Harrison defined. “It doesn’t matter what she says or what she does, after all people are going to be people, individuals cope with issues the way in which they cope with issues however she paved the way in which when there was no approach. That I’m eternally grateful [for].”
