Kayla Harrison TKO’s Kaitlin Young, celebrates early birthday at PFL 6

The Professional Fighters League returns to us tonight, July 1, 2022, for PFL 6, going down live from the Overtime Elite Arena in Atlanta, Georgia.

Headlining the event is two-time PFL women’s lightweight champion, and two-time Olympic gold medalist (Judo) Kayla Harrison, who faces Kaitlin Young in the main event of the evening.

Harrison was originally slated against Julia Budd tonight, the last woman to defeat Young, but Budd was forced out of the bout with an injury and has been replaced by a true pioneer of the sport considering.

Continue reading to see how this welterweight bout went down:

Official Result: Kayla Harrison def. Kaitlin Young via TKO (punches) at 2:35 of round one

Harrison is able to secure a nice, explosive double leg takedown right into side control to start round one, and she begins to take Young’s back. After securing the first hook, she’s able to jump to mount, where she reigns down some heavy punches for a quick finish.

Kayla Harrison is now 14-0 as a professional mixed martial artist, having secured eleven of her wins via finish.

Happy birthday to the two-time Olympic champion, she turns 32 years old tomorrow, July 2.

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Brady Ordway

I became a fan of combat sports when I was 12 years old. I was scrolling through the channels and landed upon Versus, where WEC was televised. Urijah Faber fought Jens Pulver for the second time that night. That's the first fight I ever saw, and I was immediately hooked. So eventually, I began covering the sport in the fourth quarter of 2018, and have since started writing about animals as well. If you'd like to see those pieces, be sure to check out learnaboutnature.com!

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