One ex-UFC fighter has a crucial question ahead of the planned UFC debut of Kayla Harrison.
UFC CEO Dana White dropped a bombshell when he announced that former PFL champion Harrison will be making her way to the promotion. Harrison will collide with former UFC women's bantamweight champion Holly Holm. This will be a bantamweight affair.
Like others, one former UFC star is raising his eyebrows about Harrison at 135 pounds.
Former UFC welterweight and current desk analyst Alan Jouban took to his X account and questioned how Kayla Harrison, a former lightweight, can consistently make the bantamweight limit.
"If Kayla can make 135, and make it consistently. This is exactly what the division needed right now. Someone who could be dominant and bring interest to the fights. The weight though??"
Prior to the news of Harrison's planned UFC debut, Jouban appeared on MMAFighting.com's "The Fighter vs. The Writer," where he criticized the state of the UFC's women's bantamweight division.
“There was a while, maybe even still, where the men’s light heavyweight division just made no sense,” Jouban said. “When Jon Jones left, and [Daniel Cormier] went up, and all these things happened and it’s just new champ after new champ and all the things that happened with the draws and the no-contests, this and that. The division makes no sense. There’s no clear cut contender or superstar. Obviously, [Alex] Pereira came in and now wears the gold. We look at the women’s division, the bantamweights, and you said it pretty good — it’s a wasteland.”
Jouban went as far as to say the division was "in shambles" and in desperate need of a big star. Harrison might be the answer if she can make the 135-pound limit.
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