ARLINGTON, Texas – It’s been some time since Kayla Harrison needed to put in a full and go house with no end, however the PFL’s largest star isn’t apprehensive.
Actually, Harrison appears as assured as ever that one other PFL title and $1 million payday is in her future. Harrison (13-0) outworked Marina Mokhnatkina (6-3) for a unanimous decision within the 2022 PFL Week 3 major occasion Friday in Arlington, Texas.
Harrison bought 3 factors within the standings for the win. Within the 2021 common season, each her wins had been finishes, which gave her 12 factors for a simple journey to the postseason. Friday, Larisssa Pacheco was the one girls’s light-weight on the invoice to get a end and sits atop the standings with 6 factors.
With three different girls within the division tied together with her at 3 factors, it’s not a mathematical assurance that merely successful her second battle within the common season would get her into the four-woman playoffs. However Harrison mentioned she isn’t serious about that.
“I’m not apprehensive about it,” Harrison mentioned in her post-fight information convention with media members. “I simply go on the market (and) I do my job. I do know that I’m going to make the playoffs. I do know I’m going to win the event. I simply put one foot in entrance of the opposite. Whoever mentioned that the one sure issues in life are loss of life and taxes didn’t watch me on this event. Simply give me my time: I’ll get in there and do what I do.”
That was Benjamin Franklin, the loss of life and taxes factor. And never that Harrison wanted to do a lot inventing of her personal after a five-fight streak of finishes, however that it didn’t come as straightforward this time would possibly serve her properly down the street.
Harrison mentioned she thought confirmed off her putting a little bit greater than she has up to now, and that’s one thing she’ll take out of the win.
“I feel I landed probably the most strikes on my ft this battle. I used to be pleased with that,” she mentioned. “I don’t suppose I actually bought hit in any respect throughout the battle. I feel I had good head motion. I feel I had good footwork. I felt like the space, I used to be studying it properly. I didn’t actually ever really feel in peril. I’m nonetheless getting used to all the pieces on my ft, and she or he did a very good job of surviving on the bottom. I feel I confirmed plenty of enchancment, however I can enhance extra.”
Harrison, as a two-time $1 million PFL winner, at all times may have a highlight on her. That highlight might get brighter this 12 months after she stayed with the PFL after testing the free company market.
Now within the dialog alongside UFC girls’s featherweight champion Amanda Nunes and Bellator champ Cris Cyborg as top-of-the-line girls’s fighters on the earth, there was a lot speak about what a Harrison vs. Cyborg battle would appear like.
However frankly, Harrison is over it and mentioned she’s centered on what she has to do in her personal promotion.
“On to the subsequent battle,” she mentioned. “My ideas aren’t on Cyborg proper now. Clearly, a (PFL) season – 4 fights in 5 and a half months is grueling. It’s a grind. I see plenty of areas the place I must preserve getting higher, so my focus is on me, not on Cyborg. I’m uninterested in speaking about her. I’m uninterested in serious about her. Now she’s going to be a free agent. The ball’s in her court docket. If she needs this battle, she is aware of the place I’m at. Don’t ask me anymore questions on Cyborg tonight, OK?”
