{"id":395996,"date":"2021-10-01T16:14:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T23:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=395996"},"modified":"2022-02-02T12:17:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T20:17:12","slug":"kayla-harrison-challenges-mma-fans-to-be-better-ahead-of-2021-pfl-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/kayla-harrison-challenges-mma-fans-to-be-better-ahead-of-2021-pfl-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayla Harrison challenges MMA fans to &#8216;be better&#8217; ahead of 2021 PFL Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT LAUDERDALE \u2014 Kayla Harrison is as <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/pfl-8-results-kayla-harrison-advances-to-2021-finals-with-tko-over-genah-fabian-highlights\/\">dominant<\/a> of a force as anyone in MMA in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>But with great success comes great detractors \u2013 or at least several in abundance. Beginning her run in June 2018 and now 11-0 in her professional MMA career, the Judo master has found the fans to be a lot more vocal than she&#8217;d experienced prior.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just these people with these opinions\u2026 I don&#8217;t understand this world that we live in where these people who have never dared to be great at anything in their lives have the audacity and the courage to comment on other people&#8217;s choices and decisions,&#8221; Harrison told BJPenn.com at Wednesday&#8217;s PFL 2021 Finals press conference. &#8220;And not even that, they just comment on their looks or they just say mean sh*t. I&#8217;m like dude, how? Why? What? Is this really \u2013 does that make you feel better? Does that make you feel like a better person to do stuff like that? I just can&#8217;t believe it. Twitter be wild, man. Nobody cared in Judo. MMA fans are\u2026 you can be better, MMA fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kayla Harrison believes she&#039;s the face of the PFL... for now, tells soccer mom and fishing stories\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-HWoP-2PDCk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Despite continually gaining experience in the cage, Kayla Harrison has also started getting in reps inside the professional wrestling ring. Well, with a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BRWrestling\/status\/1438308550091051009?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appearance<\/a> anyway \u2013 enough of a tease for spectators of All Elite Wrestling (AEW).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I like wrestling fans!&#8221; Harrison said. &#8220;They flip you off when you&#8217;re the heel but then they&#8217;re like &#8216;Just kidding, I love you!&#8217; you know? And I&#8217;m like, &#8216;I love you too!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was really cool to see and to go when that [Chris] Jericho guy walked out and then they cut off his music and 20,000 people just sang his song to him. I was like, damn. That is love. I said this in another interview, but if you did that in an MMA crowd they would just be like, &#8216;WOO! WOO! 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