Double Olympic judo champion Kayla Harrison will make her MMA debut on June 21 at a Professional Fighters League (PFL) event in Chicago.
The fight, against an opponent Harrison chooses not to publicly reveal, will be 20 months in the making.
In October 2016, Harrison announced she joined MMA promotion World Series of Fighting (now PFL) as a commentator, brand ambassador and potentially a fighter. But she wasn’t 100 percent committed to competing at the time.
“All signs point to a yes, but everything has to work out,” Harrison said then.
Then in June 2017, Harrison said she would fight starting in 2018.