{"id":25058,"date":"2026-08-08T19:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=25058"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T19:06:14","slug":"kayla-harrisons-manager-reveals-that-she-will-compete-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/?p=25058","title":{"rendered":"Kayla Harrison&#8217;s manager reveals that she will compete in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-label\">Trending:<\/span><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-border\"\/><span class=\"exactmetrics-inline-popular-posts-border-2\"\/>Colby Covington praises Arman Tsarukyan following RAF 11 match: \u201cYou\u2019re gonna be the UFC lightweight champ\u201d<span class=\"photo-credit\">kaylaharrisonofficial on Instagram<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kayla Harrison\u2019s manager has claimed that the UFC women\u2019s bantamweight champion will make her return later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of her win over Julianna Pena last summer, Kayla Harrison will now forever be remembered as a UFC world champion. However, she wants to do even more than that, with her big goal being to face off against Amanda Nunes in a superfight \u2013 a woman who is widely considered to be the greatest female fighter of all time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: Kayla Harrison hits back at Ronda Rousey after viral attacks at Netflix press conference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, injuries have stepped in the way of that happening for Harrison up to this point. The hope from pretty much everyone in the mixed martial arts space is that we do get to see this fight, mainly because it\u2019s one of the biggest bouts you can make in the entire sport right now.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview, Harrison\u2019s manager Ali Abdelaziz provided an update on when we can expect to see Kayla back in the Octagon.<\/p>\n<h3>Harrison expected to return this year<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cYeah, she will fight this year for sure,\u201d Abdelaziz told MMA Junkie of Harrison. \u201cTowards the end of the year, she will fight, but I\u2019m the one honestly, I said, \u2018You know what? I want you to take your time, don\u2019t rush, be healthy.\u2019 That\u2019s the most important thing for her to do. Why does she need to rush? She\u2019s the champion, everybody is chasing her, they have to wait for her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quotes via MMA Junkie<\/p>\n<p>Kayla is one of the most fascinating athletes of her generation and hopefully, when she does eventually make her return to the cage, she\u2019s able to do so at 100% \u2013 and we hope the same is true for Nunes.<\/p>\n<p>If this superfight does take place this year, who are you backing to walk away with the belt and why? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-1 mt-0 os-source\">This article appeared first on BJPENN.COM<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/kayla-harrison\/kayla-harrisons-manager-reveals-that-she-will-compete-in-2026\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=kayla-harrisons-manager-reveals-that-she-will-compete-in-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trending:Colby Covington praises Arman Tsarukyan following RAF 11 match: \u201cYou\u2019re gonna be the UFC lightweight champ\u201dkaylaharrisonofficial on Instagram Kayla Harrison\u2019s manager has claimed that the UFC women\u2019s bantamweight champion will make her return later this year. Courtesy of her win over Julianna Pena last summer, Kayla Harrison will now forever be remembered as a UFC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[3917,3090,644,803,68],"class_list":["post-25058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fighters","tag-compete","tag-harrisons","tag-kayla","tag-manager","tag-reveals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmaallout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}