How first time bleeding put Kayla Harrison in ‘mother mode’

Previous to UFC 307, Kayla Harrison hadn’t bled in 18 profession fights. Then she did in her nineteenth after Ketlen Vieira landed two arduous elbows to her face within the second spherical of their bantamweight bout this previous Saturday, and what instantly crossed Harrison’s thoughts was her youngsters sitting cageside.

“I imply, actually, my youngsters can’t come to my fights anymore. As a result of my first thought was, ‘Oh, my youngsters are seeing this,’” Harrison stated Monday in an interview with TMZ. “That’s not a thought I have to be having after I’m inside a cage. I don’t have to be pondering of my youngsters watching me bleed. I went into mother mode. I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, I hope they know I’m OK.’”

Harrison, 34, grew to become a single mother by means of adoption in 2019 when unlucky household circumstances served as a calling to absorb her niece and nephew. The considered how her youngsters would react lasted for less than a second. As soon as it left her thoughts, Harrison went again to being all enterprise for Spherical 3.

“After I received that thought out of the best way, it was simply type of like – in between the second and third spherical, I used to be bleeding, and I type of hawked a loogie, and I spit,” Harrison stated. “There was blood on it, and I simply bit down on my mouthguard like, ‘All proper, let’s f*cking go.’”

Harrison went on to win the third spherical on all three judges’ scorecards and secured a unanimous determination win in her second UFC look. The previous two-time PFL champion expects to combat for the UFC title subsequent in opposition to newly topped champion Julianna Peña.