Kayla Harrison is assured Dakota Ditcheva is destined for excellent issues in MMA.
The UFC ladies’s bantamweight contender is linking what she’s seeing from her American Prime Staff teammate Ditcheva in her former promotion – the PFL. Harrison (17-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC), a former two-time PFL champion, sees loads of potential in Ditcheva, who’s unbeaten in her MMA profession and 7-0 since signing with PFL.
“She’s a killer,” Harrison advised MMA Junkie and different reporters Thursday on the UFC Corridor of Fame crimson carpet. “She’s the way forward for MMA. I believe that she’s solely getting higher.
“She’s younger. She’s hungry. She’s disciplined. She’s motivated. She’s acquired an excellent head on her shoulders. She’s acquired an important workforce round her, and I believe the sky is the restrict for her.”
So far as her personal profession, Harrison completely fought beneath the PFL till her most up-to-date outing in April at UFC 300, the place she debuted with a submission win over Holly Holm. Harrison is grateful for her run in PFL, however is joyful to now be within the UFC.
“It’s an entire new beast, it’s an entire new animal, and actually, I’m actually grateful,” Harrison stated. “I do know previously I’ve been impatient or perhaps like not utterly proud of the place I’m at or what I’m doing, however that’s not the case anymore. I actually imagine all the things is occurring on the proper time and proper place, and I’m excited to be a part of this promotion.
“I really feel like that is house to me, and that is the place I’ll end my profession with a hell of loads of gold.”
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