Kayla Harrison just handed the woman trying to take her belt the biggest compliment in the sport. According to MMA Fighting, the UFC women’s bantamweight champion believes Amanda Nunes is the “GREATEST FIGHTER EVER, PERIOD,” as the outlet wrote on X Wednesday. That puts Nunes above everyone, men included.
That’s a wild thing to say three days before you lock in with her. Harrison (19-1) defends her title against Nunes in the co-main event of UFC 334 on Nov. 14, under Ciryl Gane vs. Josh Hokit, with the main card live at 9 p.m. ET on Paramount Plus.
The praise has a résumé behind it. Nunes is the only woman to become a two-division UFC champion. She’s a former featherweight champ and a two-time bantamweight champ, and she defended belts in both divisions while holding them at the same time, something no other fighter in UFC history has done. UFC Brasil billed her as back and motivated for fight week, asking fans whether the Lioness can win the belt back.
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Harrison isn’t exactly a mystery opponent either. She’s the only woman to win an Olympic gold medal and a UFC title, with judo golds from 2012 and 2016. She won two PFL lightweight titles, beat Holly Holm in her UFC debut in 2024, then took the bantamweight belt in June 2025 with a second-round kimura on Julianna Peña. Knockout Daily’s rankings have her No. 1 at women’s bantamweight, and she sat second in the UFC women’s pound-for-pound list as of Nov. 18, 2025.
Then came the curveball. MMA Fighting asked on X whether this could be Harrison’s final fight week, and she took on the retirement talk directly. The UFC’s own interview with her ran under the headline “That’s My Legacy,” which tells you how she’s framing Saturday. Beating the fighter she calls the greatest ever would be the cleanest possible closing argument if she ever does walk away.
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The week has been plenty loud around them. The two faced off in the middle of Times Square on Tuesday. Hokit roasted Harrison (and half the card) at media day and walked off with Nunes’ belts in a bit captured on video. And Nunes’ daughter offered her own scouting report, saying, “I wish for my mom to get the belt every fight, and Kayla loses every fight.”
Honestly? I love this approach. Harrison could have manufactured some fake beef. Instead she built Nunes up to the ceiling, which means a win Saturday is the biggest of her life and a loss comes against the best ever, by her own account. Nov. 14 settles it.
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