Ten days earlier than the primary UFC occasion of the Paramount + deal, the UFC 324 struggle card suffered a significant hit on Wednesday.
Girls’s bantamweight champion Kayla Harrison was scheduled to place her title on the road for the primary time in opposition to former teammate and former two-time titleholder Amanda Nunes, however an damage pressured Harrison out of the struggle. The Eagle Tribune. first reported the information.
The 2-time Olympic gold medalist suffered a neck damage and can endure surgical procedure to repair herniated discs. The bout was to function the UFC 324 co-main occasion at T-mobile Area in Las Vegas on Jan. 24.
Billed as the largest girls’s match within the promotion’s historical past, it was to be Nunes’ comeback struggle. Extensively thought-about the best feminine fighter of all time, Nunes retired from preventing in June 2022 after efficiently defending her bantamweight championship at UFC 289. She’s held each the bantamweight and featherweight titles.
Harrison captured the UFC bantamweight title final June, defeating former two-time champion Julianna Peña through submission at UFC 316. The struggle promotion plans to rebook the Harrison-Nunes matchup at a later date.
