UFC 324 on January 24, 2026 marks the beginning of the Paramount / CBS era of UFC, and the card is packed — so packed that a fight to determine the women’s GOAT is getting co-main status under an interim lightweight title fight.

Bantamweight champ Kayla Harrison will defend her belt against returning former 135 and 145 women’s champion Amanda Nunes in what will undoubtedly be the biggest WMMA fight in years. That didn’t earn it top billing over Paddy Pimblett vs. Justin Gaethje in what many are calling a mockery of an interim 155 pound title fight.

But Kayla doesn’t care about anything but finally knowing when the fight is and being able to prepare.

“I have been patiently waiting for a date and to confirm that this fight is gonna happen,” she said on the Ariel Helwani show. “So the bout order is irrelevant to me. I make jokes all the time, I would fight on the prelims just because it’s more conducive to the time I go to bed. Like, I’m a mom. I’m in bed at 9PM. So fighting — it’s gonna be in Vegas, so it won’t be that late, which is good.”

As always, there’s a lot of speculation that the cut to 135 is too hard and Kayla could retire at any point. But she’s got some big fights lined up: this GOAT fight with Nunes and a potential appearance as the only American-born champ at the June White House card.

“I feel good and feel locked in,” she said of her mindset. “I mean, this is my job, you know? So I’m about a hundred and fifty nine pounds. I’ll know when it’s time [to retire]. But right now, the focus is Amanda. January 24, the GOAT gets dethroned. Yeah.”

While Harrison vs. Nunes is a big fight, Harrison vs. Ronda Rousey would be even bigger. Both women are Olympic judo medalists who competed in their youth, and Kayla admitted it would be great to fight Rousey in MMA.

“It’s too poetic,” she declared.

“When people talk about us fighting, all the Ronda simps are like, ‘She already beat her twice in judo,’” Harrison added. “And I just wanna be like, ‘Yeah, well, I was 13 and I was being molested.’ I’m probably 14 or 15 [and she’s] 18 or 19. It’s fair. I mean, we were in the same weight class. She beat me. I’m woman enough to admit when I get beat, and she beat me.”

Harrison has been very open about how she was molested by a judo coach between the ages of 12 and 16. She was one of the first young Olympic athletes to come forward at a time where silence was the standard, and she did not get a lot of public support … except from Rousey.

“There was an online forum back in the day when I finally came out about my judo coach molesting me,” Harrison said in an Overdogs podcast back in 2024. “People were arguing over whether 13 was the legal age, or when it really started. And Ronda went on the forum and basically told everybody to shut the f–k up.”

With Ronda Rousey prepping for a comeback fight, it’s actually possible we could see these two Olympians face off in the cage in 2026 and make a giant pile of cash.