{"id":41061,"date":"2026-10-14T04:41:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Ronda-Rousey-beat-Kayla-Harrison-twice-Harrison-says-shes-better-now-203207"},"modified":"2026-10-14T04:41:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T04:41:18","slug":"ronda-rousey-beat-kayla-harrison-twice-harrison-says-shes-better-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/ronda-rousey-beat-kayla-harrison-twice-harrison-says-shes-better-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronda Rousey beat Kayla Harrison twice; Harrison says she&#8217;s better now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ronda-rousey-beat-kayla-harrison-twice-harrison-says-shes-better-now.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Kayla-Harrison-237039\">Kayla<br \/>\nHarrison<\/a> believes her r\u00e9sum\u00e9 surpasses <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Ronda-Rousey-73073\">Ronda<br \/>\nRousey<\/a>\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison (19-1) made the comparison on the \u201cDeep Waters\u201d podcast<br \/>\nwhen asked how she would fare against Rousey in her prime. While<br \/>\nthe reigning <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUltimate Fighting Championship<\/a> women\u2019s bantamweight titleholder<br \/>\nacknowledges Rousey\u2019s contribution to the growth of women\u2019s mixed<br \/>\nmartial arts, she believes she would beat \u201cRowdy.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Kayla Harrison doubts Ronda Rousey could submit her, cites two<br \/>\nOlympic judo gold medals ahead of Amanda Nunes fight<\/h2>\n<p>Harrison questioned the level of competition Rousey faced during<br \/>\nher rise in MMA. Rousey won six UFC title fights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe learned the armbar at the same gym together,\u201d Harrison said.<br \/>\n\u201cYou think she&#8217;s going to armbar me? Don&#8217;t be disrespectful now.<br \/>\nShe did [so much for women\u2019s MMA], but dominating women who picked<br \/>\nup gloves three years ago at a cardio-kickboxing class and said, \u2018I<br \/>\nthink I&#8217;m going to try this.\u2019 She paved the way. I&#8217;m standing on<br \/>\nher shoulders, and for that, I am grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harrison, who has more judo accolades, recalled losing twice to<br \/>\nRousey when she was 15. Rousey won an Olympic bronze medal in 2008,<br \/>\nwhile Harrison won gold in 2012 and 2016. \u201cI have won every single<br \/>\nworld cup, every single grand prix, every single grand slam,\u201d<br \/>\nHarrison added. \u201cI won the world masters twice. I won the world<br \/>\nchampionships and took three bronze medals and I won the Olympics<br \/>\ntwice. So, of course I thought I could do it because anything she<br \/>\ncan do, I can do better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harrison is scheduled to make her first title defense against<br \/>\nformer two-division champion <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Amanda-Nunes-31496\">Amanda<br \/>\nNunes<\/a> at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-334-Gane-vs-Hokit-114293\">UFC<br \/>\n334<\/a> on Nov. 14 at Madison Square Garden in New York.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e9k3_05OBJY?si=BX5ApYVsEi-g_NZL&amp;start=2407\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kayla Harrison believes her r\u00e9sum\u00e9 surpasses Ronda Rousey\u2019s. Harrison (19-1) made the comparison on the \u201cDeep Waters\u201d podcast when asked how she would fare against Rousey in her prime. While the reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship women\u2019s bantamweight titleholder acknowledges Rousey\u2019s contribution to the growth of women\u2019s mixed martial arts, she believes she would beat \u201cRowdy.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41062,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}