Kayla Harrison choked out Amanda Nunes at UFC 334, and one of the loudest voices on fight Twitter blamed the loser. “Probably the dumbest performance I have ever seen from Amanda, Kayla looked like dogshit for 4 minutes every round and then Nunes just decided to throw the round or fight away doing some bullshit,” THE MMA GURU wrote on X shortly after the finish. In the same post, he reported the result as a rear-naked choke in Round 4.
The MMA GURU is a YouTube personality with a big following and a habit of colorful takes, and this one fits the pattern. His read is that Harrison lost the minutes and won the moments, and that Nunes handed over those moments. That’s a strong claim. It also skips how grappling works. Chokes in Round 4 rarely appear out of nowhere. They usually come from rounds of grip fighting, cage pressure and scrambles that look dull on a stream and feel awful from the inside. Calling that a gift from the other fighter is the same habit that gives us the lay-and-pray crowd.
The result matters because of who was involved. Harrison is now 20-1 and sits No. 1 in the Knockout Daily women’s bantamweight rankings. She’s the reigning UFC women’s bantamweight champion, a belt she won in June 2025 with a second-round kimura against Julianna Peña. Before that she beat Holly Holm in her UFC debut in 2024 and won two PFL lightweight titles. She’s also the first woman to win both an Olympic gold medal and a UFC championship. Her two Olympic judo golds came in 2012 and 2016.
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Nunes drops to 23-6 and No. 2 in our rankings. She is the only woman to hold UFC titles in two divisions, and many people consider her the greatest female fighter ever. She was in a good mood all fight week. At the Nov. 12 press conference she dapped up Josh Hokit after one of his lines, and she laughed about it again with Kevin Holland during the weight cut.
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Syndicated reports across several outlets on Nov. 15 said Harrison has a major career decision ahead after the win. None of the coverage available so far spells out which way she’s leaning. What we do know is that a judoka with a 20-1 record just finished the most decorated woman in the sport with a choke. Her last two UFC wins came by kimura and rear-naked choke. Nobody at 135 has shown they can stop her grappling over five rounds, and the next contender will spend the whole camp trying to figure that out.
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