It’s an exciting time for Heather Hardy.
The undefeated professional boxing champion will make her second mixed martial arts appearance when she meets Kristina Williams at Bellator 185 on Saturday in Connecticut. The bout will come just two weeks before Bellator 186, where Ilima-Lei MacFarlane will fight Emily Ducote to determine the inaugural Bellator women’s flyweight champion.
“I think it’s great,” Hardy told MMASucka regarding a title opening up in her weight class. “The women’s 125-pound division is opening up across all of MMA, which I think was needed.