Women’s Bantamweight Queen Dodges Major Bullet with Recent Surgery

Kayla Harrison (19-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) was supposed to have a very different week leading up to Saturday night’s UFC 324. Initially, Harrison, the current UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion, was booked to appear in the co-main event of the evening on Saturday.

Her opponent for the belt was to be Amanda Nunes (23-5 MMA, 16-2 UFC.) The original co-main event of UFC 324 was announced almost two months ago, when UFC CEO Dana White made a special appearance at halftime of the Kansas City Chiefs at Dallas Cowboys Thanksgiving Day game on The NFL Today.

Everything seemed to be going according to plan for the Jan. 24 lid-lifter on the UFC’s 2026 schedule at T-Mobile Arena. In the final days before the…