{"id":380566,"date":"2025-12-30T14:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380566\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T14:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T14:18:07","slug":"ufc-324-kayla-harrison-amanda-nunes-full-fight-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/380566\/","title":{"rendered":"UFC 324: Kayla Harrison, Amanda Nunes full fight marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UFC opens up its Paramount+\u00a0broadcast era in Las Vegas next month, and the women&#8217;s MMA GOAT is making her return.<\/p>\n<p>UFC 324 (Paramount+) takes place Jan. 24 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. An interim lightweight title is on the line at the top of the card, and the women&#8217;s bantamweight belt is up for grabs right before that in a co-feature that really ought to be the headliner.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Women&#8217;s 135-pound champion Kayla Harrison (19-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC), a two-time Olympic gold medalist in judo and two-time PFL champion, will welcome UFC Hall of Famer Amanda Nunes (23-5 MMA, 16-2 UFC) out of retirement after nearly three years.<\/p>\n<p>Nunes, a former two-division champ at 135 pounds and featherweight, is considered the greatest women&#8217;s fighter in MMA history, but two-time Olympic gold medalist and two-time PFL $1 million winner Harrison is a 2-1 betting favorite.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the bout, which arguably is the biggest fight in women&#8217;s MMA history, check out a marathon featuring full fights from Harrison and Nunes. You&#8217;ll see Harrison&#8217;s UFC debut win over ex-champ Holly Holm, her win over Ketlen Vieira, and her destructive and dominant win over <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/julianna-pena\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Julianna Pe\u00f1a;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Julianna Pe\u00f1a<\/a> to win the title earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, see former double-champ Nunes&#8217; full wins over <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/cristiane-santos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cris Cyborg;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Cris Cyborg<\/a> to win the featherweight title; Miesha Tate to win the bantamweight title; a defense against flyweight champ <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/fighters\/valentina-shevchenko\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Valentina Shevchenko;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Valentina Shevchenko<\/a>; and wins over Holm and Irene Aldana.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on MMA Junkie: <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ufc\/2025\/12\/30\/ufc-324-kayla-harrison-amanda-nunes-full-fight-marathon\/87941763007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:UFC 324: Kayla Harrison, Amanda Nunes full fight marathon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">UFC 324: Kayla Harrison, Amanda Nunes full fight marathon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The UFC opens up its Paramount+\u00a0broadcast era in Las Vegas next month, and the women&#8217;s MMA GOAT is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[30389,64,63,49041,786,35956,785,95322,85,787,202968],"class_list":{"0":"post-380566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-amanda-nunes","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-cris-cyborg","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-kayla-harrison","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-olympic-gold-medalist","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-ufc","18":"tag-women39s-mma"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380566","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=380566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}