Kayla Harrison survived sex abuse to win Olympic gold. She’s now a UFC champ with a mega fight ahead

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Kayla Harrison survived sex abuse to win Olympic gold. She’s now a UFC champ with a mega fight ahead

Newark, New Jersey (AP) – About her neck or waist, at Kayla Harrison’s talent Win gold.

One of the main discrimination, of course, between the Olympic Games and the mixed mixed martial arts is what happens in the wake of the huge victory-there is no waiting for a period of four years for the next battle.

The next competitor is ready for confrontation inside the MMA cage.

Harrison had barely a minutes to calm after winning a prevailing victory in the 135-pound championship-in front of a crowded house, including President Donald Trump And former boxer Mike Tyson – when he apparently called the retired and previous hero and 2025 UFC Amanda Nunes.

I see Amana! Haya, Amanda, “Harrison is a malfunction of the cage.

Nunes came out of the retirement and in the battle, the former partners shook hands and exchanged some compliments before the fighters collided with a fierce conclusion.

Just something small for the poster.

“I felt big,” UFC head Dana White He said.

The moment was actually felt as a launch of something special, a super battle with Harrison in a profession that was sprayed with them on different fighting specialties, and fighting offers – always with the same result.

Harrison’s hand was raised in victory.

She said, “All I wanted is happening.”

Her largest bonus came in the adulthood filled with professional victories, Saturday night at UFC 316 at the PRUDENTIAL Center when Juliana Benia made the hero of 135 pounds late in the second round to win a championship in only the third UFC battle.

She used to prove She is a hero at the highest levelFrom the Olympic Games to the cage, and it was left only in the wake of it.

We are not Juduka – a man or a woman – Olympic gold medal Before Harrison overcame the British Gima Gibones to win the division of 78 kg for women in the 2012 London Olympics. She won the gold again after four years in Rio de Janeiro games and showed for the first time in MMA in 2018.

Harrison, 34, was a prize champion of $ 1 million in Professional fighters League A lightweight championship section before moving to UFC last year. She won the first two UFC attacks and its record-now a sparkling series 19-1 in MMA in general-besides fame that made it a competition for an immediate title.

Through all this, Harrison was open about years of physical and mental abuse by a former coach leading to the Olympic Games. She was a teenage victim, and revealed that she had even thought about quitting judo and suicide. Harrison turned into her deep faith – “I trust in God” – who weighed her along the way and wrote a book on identifying and overcoming shock.

It has turned into a type of abuse of use, and since the best active MMA fighter continues to raise its way to the public eye, Harrison speaks frankly and without shyness in its experience.

She said, “I removed it well,” she said. “I am no longer that 10 -year -old girl, the 16 -year -old girl. I am an adult now. I feel that God gave me this story for some reason. It’s my job to use to try to make the world a better place. I want to talk about it.”

Harrison has set the statistics of the dark child abuse and indicated that “this is just children who say something.”

Harrison said: “How do we stop it? “We stop it by looking at him in the eye and putting his face.”

This face is now one of the elite hero MMA.

Harrison said: “I never want a little girl or a young boy to feel lonely, feel anxious, and feel shy.” “There is hope. There is a glossy gold medal at the end of the tunnel. There is UFC belt at the end of the tunnel.”

Harrison did a quick work for Peña – who composed one of the great turmoil in the history of UFC when she surprised Nunes for the Belt in 2021 – to add another championship to her combat group.

Harrison took a page of her juhudo career before the match and bowed to Trump as a sign of respect. White, Trump’s ally for a long time, tied the belt around the Harrison waist inside the cage and encouraged it to say hello to the president.

She jumped out of the cage and ran her belt on the Trump shoulder standing from his seat in the headquarters. They embraced and uploaded pictures with the president and his entourage.

Harrison said: “The President of the United States gives me a kiss on my cheek and I am like the sacred (cow),” Harrison said. “Then Mike Tyson there is there! I’m like, am I in a movie now? What is happening?”

She later made a trip to the White House as usual for other sports cards.

Harrison seemed to prefer to be affected by other dedicated weight cutting than answering the path that was more striking, or winning the Olympic gold or MMA. She admitted that choosing the winner was like choosing a favorite child, before he referred to “I have no favorite children.”

Of course, Harrison is proud to have lived her dream in MMA as a single mother and threatened mely to rid her daughter and son if she was in the middle of the night to see her going to work.

The tragedy struck in late 2019 when Harrison’s mother suffered a stroke and her father’s husband died after months, leaving the daughter of Harrison’s young sister and his nephew without a guardian (her sister was outside the picture).

Harrison became an instant lever – and a mother because she finally adopted both children.

What about that, Harison against Nunes at the main event to pay UFC for each show?

“I am my mother.” Harrison said. “The more early on the card, the better.”

Nunes, which cleared the title of 135 pounds when it retired in 2023, is not currently in the UFC drug test set. It needs at least six months of random drug test before you can compete.

It is a slight and only builds the noise and expectation of the match.

“We will definitely see each other in the future,” Nunes told Harrison in the cage.

Harrison benefited from the UFC championship belt, which settled at a press conference table and realized that it means much more than some polished gold that was wrapped around its waist. What Harrison is waiting for – a super battle, larger wealth, and perhaps even a trip to the White House – fades to what she endured on her journey towards the claim that she is the best in the world.

She said: “I feel that my soul is not fractured and my faith is not shaken.” “Who I am as a person is a proud person. Yes, this belt is amazing. But the journey to get here is the most important thing for me.”

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