Harris hopes his professional career can go from strength to strength in Cage Warriors, with his ultimate goal to join the ranks of the UFC.<\/p>\n
“I had a bit of a tricky start to my pro career, it was hard getting fights,” Harris told BBC Sport Wales.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully now I’ve signed with Cage Warriors there will be loads of boys willing to fight me and willing to get there. <\/p>\n
“The goal is to get to the UFC, that’s what I want to do and Cage Warriors is a great path to get me there.<\/p>\n
“If I don’t beat George Staines, I don’t deserve to be in the UFC so I’ve got to fix something to come back, but I’m going to win.”<\/p>\n
Harris’ focus swapped to mixed martial arts after showing early promise in judo.<\/p>\n
“I wanted to go to the Olympics but then didn’t quite work out and I took a different path with MMA,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“My mate was doing it and I thought, ‘ah that looks really good, I’ll give it a go’.<\/p>\n
“It’s taken me down this whole self development journey and it’s really progressed me as a person and it’s great. <\/p>\n
“I just want to see how far I can go with the sport.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harris hopes his professional career can go from strength to strength in Cage Warriors, with his ultimate goal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-326973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}