Midnight Mania! PFL’s Donn Davis disses Kayla Harrison after UFC exit: ‘A follower who needs validation’

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Kayla Harrison’s star is brighter than ever.

The 2-time Olympic Judo gold medalist constructed up her combined martial arts (MMA) resume largely within the Skilled Fighter’s League (PFL) cage. She made her debut for PFL and have become a champion there, constructing a powerful 16-1 skilled report in her 5 years on the roster. Earlier this yr, nevertheless, Harrison lastly jumped ship for the UFC’s Octagon, a transfer many battle followers have been eagerly anticipating for years.

The large impediment was presumed to be weight class, as Harrison had by no means fought at 135-pounds previous to her UFC debut. Fortuitously, the Olympian got here ready, making weight after which dominating former champion Holly Holm en path to a second-round submission victory (watch highlights). At 33 years of age, Harrison is a much-needed injection of expertise into the ladies’s Bantamweight title image, and most everyone seems to be glad she’s on the UFC roster.

Effectively, not fairly everybody.

Although PFL discovered Donn Davis had a hand in permitting Harrison to transition to the UFC, he doesn’t seem all that impressed by her choice. In an interview with veteran referee John McCarthy, Davis used a basketball analogy to diss Harrison as “a follower who wants validation.”

“It’s attention-grabbing,” Davis stated on the Weighing In podcast. “Some individuals on the very high of their profession are LeBron James, and a few on the very high of their profession are Kevin Durant. They usually’re each otherworldly basketball gamers, however who they’re could be very completely different individuals. One needs to steer and alter their sport, and wherever they’re is one of the best on this planet. The opposite is a follower who wants validation, and we couldn’t do something about that.”

That’s a reasonably daring description of the primary feminine Judo gold medalist in American historical past.

Fortuitously, each events are free to go their separate methods now. Harrison can pursue her UFC title goals, and he or she’ll doubtless discover herself in an undisputed title battle prior to later. Davis, in the meantime, can proceed to push the envelop and maintain occasions all around the globe … if he pays his athletes.

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