Kayla Harrison has weighed weight for UFC 316 after the most debilitating cut of her professional MMA career.
The dual Olympic gold medal winner competed in her PFL days on a huge 155 pound back and became a double champion of $ 1 million. But by the time she reached the UFC, they had even attracted their featherweight division, which means that she had to reach Bantamweight to pursue her dream.
She has reduced the brutal earlier, but had to drop a further pound to give the scale for Saturday's pay-per-view co-headliner. Now she is full of steam ahead and ready to take on Julianna Pena.
Kayla Harrison UFC 316 Weighing result
Kayla Harrison made weight for UFC 316 on the button, tipped the scales at 135LB after a debilitating cut that saw her a career layer. She has not been 135 pounds since her childhood, but has made 136 pounds for her last two fights in the UFC.
Pena also had no problem, the scales asked at 135 pounds on the button, making this world title showdown officially in New Jersey. In the main event, both Merab Dvalishvili and Sean O'Malley also saw weight for bantam weight, where the champion even came a little light at 134 pounds.
Now it is still to be seen what effect the cruel weight movement has had on Harrison, which fluid as high as 155 pounds. She has always been an advocate against cutting the weight and is supposed to do this temporarily to pursue UFC gold.
Fans were not so happy with how Harrison looked on the scales and their worries on social media with one write that she looks legitimate skin and bones. That is not healthy at all. They also called for Harrison to 'go up', but there is no higher weight in the UFC.
Another added: “She looks dead. If she wins tomorrow, only the Amanda fight is left for her cus, in no way she can keep weighing.” Others asked: “How does she do that?”
Kayla Harrison admitted that the weight cut for UFC 316 has been 'torture'
While he spoke with Ariel Helwani in a recent appearance on his non -crowned show, Harrison opened the struggles she has confronted with arriving. This is her third attempt at Bantam weight, but her first must come all the way to 135LB on the spot.
“It's torture,” Harrison said when he was asked about the cut. “But all I wanted to be is on the other side of that torture. I feel that I am being refined in the fire. It is a very lonely process. It is a much harder mental rut than I expected.
“First of all it was like this fear of:” Oh my God, can I do this? “And now it's this fear of:” Oh my God, I know what to do to do this. ” It is absolutely not healthy.
“My team is berded so much and I know what to do. It's not easy, but in the end I believe it will be worth it, and we do it as healthy and safe as possible.”