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Kayla Harrison provides update on MMA thoughts

Kayla Harrison reiterated that she has offers on the table to sign a mixed martial arts contract, with interest from at least three “big” promotion companies in an interview Monday.

Harrison repeated as an Olympic judo champion in Rio and is all but retired from that sport at age 26.

She has been asked time and again for years about her interest in pursuing MMA, in part because of former training partner Ronda Rousey‘s overwhelming success after she switched from Olympic judo.

Harrison has always in recent months not committed to MMA but left the door open if the opportunity was right.