{"id":397918,"date":"2021-10-25T16:49:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T23:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=397918"},"modified":"2021-10-27T11:17:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T18:17:02","slug":"pfl-founder-donn-davis-fires-back-at-dana-white-for-comments-about-kayla-harrison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/exclusive-interviews\/pfl-founder-donn-davis-fires-back-at-dana-white-for-comments-about-kayla-harrison\/","title":{"rendered":"PFL Founder Donn Davis fires back at Dana White for comments about Kayla Harrison"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT LAUDERDALE \u2014 Kayla Harrison will be a free agent after this Wednesday’s PFL<\/a> 2021 Championship.<\/p>\n

Appearing during the fight week’s media day, Harrison answered the usual round of questions \u2013 lastly focusing on comments from Dana White earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I was her, I\u2019d stay right where she is and keep picking off the people over there,\u201d White told TSN’s Aaron Bronsteter<\/a>. \u201c\u2026 I would stay there [in the PFL] and keep fighting the type of women she\u2019s fighting there before I would come here and fight an Amanda Nunes. That\u2019s for damn sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harrison, 31, has quickly amassed a record of 11-0 with all but one of those victories coming inside the PFL cage. Having already earned the million-dollar grand prize in 2019, Harrison could go out with a bang by defeating Taylor Guardado in the 2021 lightweight finals main event.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks for the advice, Uncle Dana, I appreciate you,\u201d Harrison told media on Monday<\/a>. \u201cMy job is going to focus on Oct. 27. I really don\u2019t care what other people have to say about me or my career, my choices, or my options. I\u2019m going to do what\u2019s best for me, and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what he does. That\u2019s his job. I\u2019m gonna talk about how I\u2019m the greatest of all time, and he\u2019s gonna talk about, \u2018Well, calm down. No, you\u2019re not.\u2019 This is a game. This is a business. The difference is I really am gonna be the greatest of all time. He\u2019s gonna see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Right as Harrison finished her sentence, PFL Founder Donn Davis entered the room to retort to White’s comments.<\/p>\n

“Look, as the founder of the league, this is a fighter-first league,” Davis told BJPenn.com. “I’m an entrepreneur, I see them as entrepreneurs. How far can they (the fighters) go \u2013 it’s our job to help them. How do we encourage fighters, how do we promote fighters, how do we help fighters \u2013 that’s what the PFL is all about. So we want the fighters who want to bet on themselves. Because the PFL’s a meritocracy. Win and advance, lose and go home. It’s just like the NBA or the NFL, no B.S., no politics, no social media. What happens inside the cage determines the champion. The best fighter wins \u2013 that’s what sport is.”<\/p>\n