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Kayla Harrison defeated Cindy Dandois by skill of first-round submission (armbar) in a light-weight matchup to cap off the Skilled Opponents’ League (PFL) 6 main card from Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City, Contemporary Jersey on Friday.
Harrison is a two-time Olympic gold medal-worthwhile judoka (78 kg). She moreover won gold on the 2010 World Championships. Her all-time judo file is 45-7, capped by a gold-medal match exhaust over France’s Audrey Tcheumeo in 2016.
Two years later, she moved on to mixed martial arts, where she’s gone 10-0.
The 30-year-extinct used to be no longer looking ahead to going through Dandois in a uncommon moment of humility and honesty no longer on the entire viewed before colossal fights from opponents.
“Successfully, to be accurate, I used to be no longer soft pumped about it,” Harrison informed Simon Samano and Mike Bohn of MMA Junkie.
“Right here is the one girl I did no longer desire to fight—no longer stylistically or something. I listened to an interview that she did where, I invent no longer know, she has six adolescents, and her mom appropriate died of cancer, and this is her final hurrah. And I used to be like, ‘Rattling, I truly invent no longer desire to realize the nail in the coffin.'”
Dandois, 36, spoke with Nicole Bosco of FanSided in that aforementioned interview:
Harrison knew she had to exit there and “invent enterprise,” though.
“It’s what it is miles,” she said. “I’m no longer guilty of the matchups, I’m no longer guilty of matchmaking, so it is time to exit there and invent enterprise.”
Dandois is an carried out fighter herself, getting into Friday 16-6 in her MMA profession with 9 submissions and four knockouts. She had won eight of her earlier 10 matches before losing to Kaitlin Young by skill of unanimous resolution on Can also 6.
