Kayla Harrison Admits First MMA Loss Is ‘Going to Hurt for A While’

Kayla Harrison ran into a different verison of Larissa Pacheco at the 2022 PFL Championships, and the end result was her first career defeat as a mixed martial artist.

After Harrison dominated Pacheco over eight rounds in their first two meetings, the trilogy was far more competitive, with the Brazilian emerging with a back-and-forth unanimous decision triumph to claim $1 million and the 155-pound throne.

“She was just extremely physical this fight,’ Harrison said of Pacheco at the post-fight press conference (via MMAFighting.com). “I feel like it was a different person in there, to be honest. I don’t know. She was much bigger, much stronger than I recalled. Much more patient, obviously.…