Kayla Harrison spent the primary 17 fights of her profession with the PFL, however her defection to the UFC led to a social media put up on Saturday highlighting the one loss she’s ever suffered.
Simply earlier than Harrison defeated Ketlen Vieira at UFC 307, the PFL posted a brief video detailing her resolution loss to Larissa Pacheco again in 2022 whereas additionally selling its upcoming pay-per-view occasion on Oct. 19 in Saudi Arabia. Whereas UFC CEO Dana White didn’t truly see PFL’s put up about Harrison, he didn’t appear all that stunned by the maneuver.
“I feel once you’re dropping as a lot cash as they’re, f*cking go for it,” White stated on the UFC 307 post-fight press convention. “F*cking throw the kitchen sink at it.”
White has not often held his tongue when discussing the PFL however particularly when the upstart promotion decides to take intention on the UFC.
One other remark that White jumped on when addressing the PFL was a latest comment from co-founder Donn Davis when he said that the group was spending more cash on the upcoming PPV headlined by Francis Ngannou than the UFC spent producing the latest UFC 306 card at Sphere in Las Vegas.
White famously documented the excessive price to placed on a present there with expenditures reaching greater than $20 million by the point it was all stated and accomplished.
“This man [Donn Davis] simply got here out just lately and stated ‘you understand we’re going to spend more cash than they did on the Sphere.’ That sounds f*cking good,” White stated. “What number of tickets are you going to promote? They’re not very vibrant.”
After all there’s little doubt that the UFC stays the largest promotion in all of MMA however White couldn’t assist himself when declaring the monetary shortcomings of his opponents.
That’s why he wasn’t all that stunned by the transfer from PFL on Saturday when it got here to taking intention at a former star in Harrison, who now calls the UFC house.
“Pay attention, it’s all truthful,” White stated. “They’re drowning. They suck. They’re not good at what they do. I suppose you’d simply preserve attempting something you may to make one thing stick. All good.”
