{"id":445736,"date":"2026-01-29T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445736\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T19:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:11:07","slug":"pic-kayla-harrison-neck-surgery-leaves-ufc-champ-with-giant-scar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/445736\/","title":{"rendered":"Pic: Kayla Harrison neck surgery leaves UFC champ with giant scar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The reigning UFC women\u2019s bantamweight champion revealed the sizable scar she received in exchange for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-324-news-results-paramount-streaming-updates-mma\/415082\/new-details-emerge-kayla-harrison-neck-injury-manager-vows-ufc-comeback-be-legendary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">neck surgery<\/a>, hastily booked to alleviate crippling pain ahead of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-324-news-results-paramount-streaming-updates-mma\/414765\/disaster-strikes-ufc-324-neck-injury-surgery-cancels-kayla-harrison-vs-amanda-nunes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently-rescheduled title defense<\/a> against former division champion Amanda Nunes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe road back starts now,\u201d Harrison, 35, said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/414917\/kayla-harrison-releases-statement-from-hospital-bed-on-ufc-324-neck-injury-i-dont-know-gods-plans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recent statement<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t know God\u2019s plans. I know He knows that this is my dream so I gotta praise him in the mountains and I gotta praise him in the valleys, so I\u2019m grateful for this. I hope that it brings me closer to Him and that He uses this story in a mighty way. So, that\u2019s it. I\u2019m sorry, guys. I\u2019ll be back soon. I\u2019ll be back soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Harrison (19-1) is expected to make a full recovery and be ready for competition within six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The reigning UFC women\u2019s bantamweight champion revealed the sizable scar she received in exchange for neck surgery, hastily&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,133987,102865,1396,179146],"class_list":{"0":"post-445736","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-latest-ufc-mma-news","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-ufc-324","15":"tag-ufc-medical-suspensions","16":"tag-ufc-news","17":"tag-ufc-on-paramount"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445736","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=445736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}