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Kayla ⁠⁠Harrison defeats Amanda Nunes to retain UFC bantamweight belt

Al Jazeera

Kayla ⁠⁠Harrison has retained her Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bantamweight title with a fourth-round submission win over one of the mixed martial arts (MMA) all-time greats, Amanda Nunes, in the United States. The American fighter leveraged her tremendous grappling skills and thwarted ⁠⁠her opponent’s attempt to take the belt back in the main event of UFC 334 at New York’s Madison Square Garden on Saturday. A two-time Olympic judo champion, the 36-year-old Harrison was facing arguably the greatest female fighter of all time in Nunes, a dominant two-weight champion at bantamweight and featherweight before she stepped away from the sport in June 2023.

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