UFC ladies’s bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison defended Natalia Silva and Wang Cong towards Demetrious Johnson’s current mockery.
The UFC 332 fundamental occasion between flyweights Natalia Silva and Wang Cong wasn’t considered as a must-see struggle by many followers, pundits, and fellow fighters. Silva defeated Cong by unanimous determination to win the then-vacant UFC flyweight title vacated by Valentina Shevchenko earlier this 12 months.
Forward of UFC 332, UFC Corridor of Famer Demetrious Johnson and former middleweight champion Israel Adesanya hinted at skipping watching the UFC’s return to Salt Lake Metropolis. When their podcast producer introduced up that Silva vs. Cong was headlining the cardboard, Johnson and Adesanya burst into laughter on the UFC’s determination to place the 2 flyweights in the principle occasion.
UFC ladies’s bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison, who was instructed by Johnson to retire as a substitute of combating Amanda Nunes final 12 months, didn’t maintain again in protection of Silva and Cong.
Kayla Harrison: Demetrious Johnson’s mindset ‘detrimental’ to MMA’s development
In a current interview on The Ariel Helwani Present, Harrison responded to Johnson and Adesanya’s mockery of the UFC 332 headliner.
“I’m simply type of over [Johnson’s] perspective, I’m over it,” Harrison mentioned of Johnson.
“This mindset of shortage is detrimental to the expansion of the game. There’s sufficient room on the desk for all of us to eat, and we don’t must belittle or poke enjoyable or put down anybody else as a way to construct our personal model. In fact, these women should not stars but. However are you aware the way you construct a star? You f—– put them in the principle occasion, and also you construct them…
“To speak s— about them like that, I simply really feel it’s pointless,” Harrison continued on Johnson’s feedback. “Tremendous pointless.”
Regardless of Johnson’s opposition, Harrison will face Nunes within the UFC 334 co-main occasion subsequent month at Madison Sq. Backyard. She hasn’t fought since capturing the ladies’s bantamweight title final 12 months at UFC 316.
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