BJJ News — kayla-harrison

Kayla Harrison Is Back Training After Neck Surgery — The UFC Women's Bantamweight Champ Who Called Rousey a Liar Is Now Targeting a Return

Kayla Harrison Is Back Training After Neck Surgery — The UFC Women's Bantamweight Champ Who Called Rousey a Liar Is Now Targeting a Return

Kayla Harrison was two weeks out from defending her UFC women's bantamweight title when the UFC flew her to New York and doctors gave her two options: have neck surgery immediately, or risk paralysis. That was late January.
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Ronda Rousey Tried to Occupy Two Contradictory Positions at Once, Three Weeks Before Fighting Gina Carano

Ronda Rousey Tried to Occupy Two Contradictory Positions at Once, Three Weeks Before Fighting Gina Carano

About two weeks before the Netflix main event that would shake up combat sports, Ronda Rousey did what she'd been doing non-stop for the previous three weeks: she tried to hold two mutually exclusive emotional positions in a single sentence and called it grace. When TMZ caught her on camera on April
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Kayla Harrison vs Amanda Nunes Is the UFC 329 Title Fight Nobody Talked About — Between Them, They Have More World Grappling Titles Than McGregor Has Fights Since 2021

Kayla Harrison vs Amanda Nunes Is the UFC 329 Title Fight Nobody Talked About — Between Them, They Have More World Grappling Titles Than McGregor Has Fights Since 2021

The UFC 329 bantamweight title fight is July 11 in Las Vegas during International Fight Week. Kayla Harrison defends.
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Kayla Harrison Calls The IJF's Leg-Grab Ban 'Political' And Modern Judo 'Kind Of Boring' — 'How Are You Going To Ban An Original Throw?'

Kayla Harrison Calls The IJF's Leg-Grab Ban 'Political' And Modern Judo 'Kind Of Boring' — 'How Are You Going To Ban An Original Throw?'

Kayla Harrison has two Olympic gold medals in judo, a UFC bantamweight title around her waist, and a public diagnosis of her old sport that the International Judo Federation cannot really argue with: modern judo is, in her words, "kind of boring." The leg-grab ban they've defended for sixteen years?
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Netflix's First MMA Card Features Two Fighters Who Haven't Won A Fight This Decade

Netflix's First MMA Card Features Two Fighters Who Haven't Won A Fight This Decade

The streaming platform that changed how the world watches television is about to introduce 325 million subscribers to combat sports. And the first thing they'll see is a woman who last won a fight when "Hotline Bling" was still on the charts.
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Netflix Is Selling Rousey vs Carano As A 'Legacy' Fight. Between Them, It's Been 29 Years Since A Real Win.

Netflix Is Selling Rousey vs Carano As A 'Legacy' Fight. Between Them, It's Been 29 Years Since A Real Win.

Netflix is selling the May 16 card at the Intuit Dome as a moment. The main event is Ronda Rousey against Gina Carano.
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Ronda Rousey Called The Reigning UFC Champion A 'Wet Towel.' The Wet Towel Has Two Olympic Golds In Rousey's Own Sport.

Ronda Rousey Called The Reigning UFC Champion A 'Wet Towel.' The Wet Towel Has Two Olympic Golds In Rousey's Own Sport.

Ronda Rousey showed up to a Netflix press conference in New York on April 15 and spent the afternoon explaining that Kayla Harrison, the reigning UFC bantamweight champion who has defended the belt Rousey used to own, has "the charisma of a wet towel" and "will always be in me and Gina's shadow." T
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