Megan Anderson wonders if Kayla Harrison’s decrease to bantamweight will maintain an tag on power vs. ‘specimen’ Holly Holm

If Kayla Harrison is simply too depleted after cutting down to 136 pounds, Megan Anderson expects her to combat.

Two-time PFL mild-weight champion Harrison (16-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) makes her octagon debut in opposition to primitive UFC champ Holly Holm (15-6 MMA, 8-6 UFC) in a bantamweight bout at UFC 300 on April 13 in Las Vegas.

Harrison will try and be triumphant in 136 pounds for the principle time in her profession. No subject that, the the 2-time Olympic gold medalist judoka spread out as a huge favourite in opposition to Holm. Anderson, who used to be taken down four instances in a unanimous resolution loss to Holm in 2018, thinks Harrison can if truth be told maintain a onerous time in opposition to Holm if the weight decrease takes a toll on her body.

“With these weight cuts, too, will the power be there?” Anderson acknowledged on her YouTube channel. “She likes to utilize her power, she likes to utilize her bodily prowess in her fights, however will that restful be there dropping to a weight class that she’s never dropped before?

“If she’s cutting a significant quantity of weight, that increases the likelihood of no longer being ready to rehydrate because it may perhaps be, which then increases the likelihood of knockouts, of getting rocked with punches that she wouldn’t had been at a greater weight class. Holly Holm, out of each opponent in my entire profession, is bodily the strongest opponent I actually maintain ever confronted. She’s a f*cking specimen.”

All the map through an Instagram dwell on Wednesday, UFC CEO Dana White claimed that Harrison has already made 135 pounds a pair of instances in check cuts. Nonetheless Anderson doesn’t only query if Harrison’s weight decrease will negatively affect her, however her ability to utilize her placing to obtain to Holm.

“She has shown she’s had some concerns closing the differ,” Anderson acknowledged. “It’s no longer factual going to be with the Holly combat. It’s going to be with these forms of women. They’ve seen the blueprint on the true intention to beat a judoka that doesn’t know the true intention to shut the differ in Ronda Rousey. … Holly may perhaps even no longer maintain the vitality, in particular in her hands to tumble somebody, however she’s a master at differ. She performs a affected person sport.”

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