“I think she’ll smash all these guys.”
Olympic gold medalist and former PFL champion Kayla Harrison has big plans for her UFC career, which include not one, but two championship titles to cement herself as the greatest combat sports athlete of all time.
Unfortunately, none of that is possible unless she fights.
According to manager Ali Abdelaziz, matchmakers are struggling to find Harrison an opponent after the judo phenom laid waste to Holly Holm as part of the UFC 300 card back in April, which is why he’s now pushing for intergender fights.
“Merab (Dvalishvili) or Aljamain Sterling,” Abdelaziz told Submission Radio. “Yeah. I think it’s a very competitive fight. It’s not fair. It’s not, honestly, because if none of these girls want to fight her, let’s fight somebody at 135. Let’s fight some, you know, Rob Font. But I think her wrestling is too good for Rob Font. It’s not even a fair fight. Or maybe this Brazilian guy. What’s his name? Former champion. I think she’ll smash all these guys, honestly. Because none of these females, they’re gonna want to fight her. Especially after what she did to Holly.”
Any fight that has the potential to showcase a man punching a woman in the face is never gonna happen. No stateside commission will license it, no network (including ESPN) will air it, and no promotion looking to stay in business will book it.
That kind of “Business” can only be found in Russia.
“I think let’s make her fight some men,” Abdelaziz continued. “And I believe she can win, beat all these guys I just mentioned. The UFC offered hundreds of thousands of dollars for a female fighter to accept a fight, and nobody wanted it. But they’re not going to have no choice. The UFC is going to have to strip them from the title or something. But listen, Hunter Campbell is working on this. They will get her a fight. But nobody wants to fight her. That’s why I said, let’s go for Aljamain or Merab or somebody.”
Or maybe we all just need to CALM DOWN.