News of Harrison\u2019s injury<\/a> came out yesterday afternoon (Wed. Jan 14th, 2026), and the initial reaction from many fans was disappointment that we wouldn\u2019t get to see Harrison and Amanda Nunes fight. This new video from Kayla, in a hospital bed with a neck brace and close to tears, really reminds you that behind every injury report is a human being going through some rough s**t.<\/p>\n\u201cI just wanted to give a bit of an update on my end,\u201d Kayla said, her voice trembling. \u201cYeah, this is a tough one. I had to have surgery on my neck yesterday here in New York City with the specialist, Doctor Kim. So in lieu of that, obviously, we\u2019re gonna have to reschedule the fight. And I just wanna say: I\u2019m sorry. I\u2019m sorry to Amanda. I was really looking forward to it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harrison went on to thank the UFC, doctors, and her family for taking good care of her through the process. Initial reports mentioned herniated discs, but it\u2019s still unclear exactly how serious the neck injury is, what kind of surgery Kayla had, and what the healing process will be like. But Kayla is already plotting her return.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, this is day one of recovery, and the road back starts now,\u201d she said. \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. And 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.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that\u2019s it. I\u2019m sorry, guys. I\u2019ll be back soon. I\u2019ll be back soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
If any other fighter released this video, we\u2019d write them off for the rest of 2026 and maybe forever. But given how tough and resilient<\/a> Kayla Harrison has been through her long career as an athlete, we wouldn\u2019t be surprised if she really was back \u2018soon,\u2019 as crazy as her prediction sounds right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kayla Harrison just released an emotional statement regarding her withdrawal from UFC 324 due to neck surgery. News…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-411144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}