Dec. 1, 2025, 6:00 p.m. ET
How is it potential that Kayla Harrison vs. Amanda Nunes is enjoying second fiddle to Justin Gaethje vs. Paddy Pimblett at UFC 324? Whereas that is a query being requested by many MMA pundits, Harrison could not care much less.
“It is not about me, and it is not about Amanda,” Harrison stated Monday on “The Ariel Helwani Present.” I feel it is concerning the belt. That ought to imply one thing.”
UFC CEO Dana White introduced on Thanksgiving that Gaethje vs. Pimblett – for the interim light-weight title within the wake of reports that champion Ilia Topuria would take break day – is ready to headline UFC 324, whereas the extremely anticipated superfight between girls’s bantamweight champ Harrison and Nunes serves because the co-main occasion. The UFC’s determination to make Harrison vs. Nunes the co-headliner to Gaethje vs. Pimblett raised eyebrows, with critics arguing {that a} made-up interim title battle ought to by no means headline over an undisputed title battle.
No less than that half, Harrison agrees with – however solely to an extent.
“I agree that this stuff matter,” Harrison stated. “Does it matter to me? Not in the best way that it issues to you.”
Harrison vs. Nunes is seemingly a straightforward battle to promote as a essential occasion given the elite nature of the matchup (a two-time Olympic gold medalist vs. the consensus girls’s GOAT) and the storylines concerned (Nunes’ return from retirement and the truth that each girls have been associates and stablemates at American Prime Workforce).
Whereas all that may matter to the speaking heads, all Harrison cares about is that the battle is lastly taking place.
“For me, I’ve been patiently ready for a date to verify that this battle is gonna occur,” Harrison stated. “The bout order is irrelevant to me. I am simply being trustworthy. I make jokes on a regular basis the place I am like, I’d battle on the prelims simply because it is extra conducive to the time I am going to mattress.”
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