Often drawing comparisons to inaugural bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey during her mixed martial arts career, incoming UFC 307 star, Kayla Harrison has admitted that while the Riverside native holds a complex legacy in the sport — she paved a way for her female counterparts.
Harrison, a former two-time PFL (Professional Fighters League) lightweight tournament winner and two-time Olympic gold medal victor, is slated to return to action at the beginning of next month, making her sophomore Octagon walk in a showdown with Ketlen Vieira.
Making her long-anticipated bow in the promotion on the preliminary card of UFC 300 earlier this year, Harrison took out common-foe, Holly Holm with a dominant second round rear-naked choke win, landing herself as the number three rank in the division.