Kayla Harrison isn\u2019t a big fan of Demetrious Johnson.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not that the current Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) women\u2019s Bantamweight champion doesn\u2019t think \u201cMighty Mouse\u201d wasn\u2019t a talented champion, it\u2019s his most recent take on women\u2019s MMA \u2014 her in particular \u2014 that has rubbed the champ the wrong way.<\/p>\n
\u201cKayla Harrison is calling out Amanda Nunes. I think that\u2019s a very, very bad idea,\u201d Johnson said (via MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cYes, Kayla Harrison is a world champion, but when you look at the roster of what Amanda Nunes fought and what Kayla Harrison fought, there\u2019s no f*cking comparison. There\u2019s not one comparison at all. You had Ronda Rousey, Miesha Tate, Cat Zingano, (Germaine De Randamie), Valentina Shevchenko. Just the talent pool Amanda Nunes has fought in mixed martial arts, blows everything that Kayla Harrison has done in her entire career, just the talent pool.<\/p>\n \u201cAmanda Nunes doesn\u2019t need to come out of retirement. I think the only thing that\u2019s enticing her to come out of retirement is probably how easy the fight might be. They trained together. … She\u2019s got to get Amanda Nunes down. Amanda Nunes is not a very small girl. She\u2019s very big. She\u2019s very strong for her size. I think for Amanda Nunes if she comes back, she is putting her legacy on the line, but it\u2019s not something that I\u2019m jumping out of my seat to see. I\u2019d rather see Amanda Nunes stay retired, and then maybe see Kayla Harrison fight one more time and then retire.\u201d<\/p>\n Not one to sit idle, Harrison fired back.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m just kind of over \u2018Mighty\u2019s\u2019 attitude,\u201d Harrison said on \u201cThe Ariel Helwani Show.\u201c<\/a> via MMA Junkie<\/a>. \u201cFirst of all, he\u2019s the one that said I shouldn\u2019t fight Amanda, I should retire. This mindset of scarcity is detrimental to the growth of the sport. There\u2019s enough room at the table for all of us to eat, and we don\u2019t have to belittle, or poke fun, or put down anyone else to build our own brand,\u201d she added before piling on after she was also bothered by Johnson\u2019s attitude toward <\/a>the recent heavily-criticized headlining title fight <\/a>between Natalia Silva and Wang Cong at UFC 332 in which both he and Israel Adesanya were openly-laughing about it.<\/p>\n \u201cI just don\u2019t believe in that, and especially for a retired fighter. Of course those girls are not stars yet. But you know how you build a star? You fucking put them in the main event and you build them. You have to start somewhere, so to talk shit about them like that, I feel is just unnecessary \u2013 super unnecessary.\u201d<\/p>\n While Nunes\u2019 MMA resume is a bit more stacked when compared to Harrison, the former two-time PFL champion is a legit star athlete in her own right. That said, if she can defeat \u201cLioness\u201d she could have the final laugh against \u201cMight Mouse,\u201d who is widely knows as the greatest Flyweight of all time<\/a>.<\/p>\n What are your thoughts on this brewing feud?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kayla Harrison isn\u2019t a big fan of Demetrious Johnson. It\u2019s not that the current Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,702],"class_list":["post-935568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935568","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=935568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}