“KAYLA HARRISON SUBMITS AMANDA NUNES WITH A REAR NAKED CHOKE IN ROUND 4! #UFC334 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 (@THATBOYMMAGURU) wrote on X moments after the finish.
That’s his read, and it’s a harsh one. The suggestion that Nunes threw rounds away is his opinion about her decision-making, and nothing in the record supports it as anything more than that. What the record does show is the result: Harrison, the UFC women’s bantamweight champion, choked out the woman widely considered the greatest female fighter of all time, in Round 4.
Then Harrison hinted at retirement after UFC 334, as MMA Sucka reported. She spoke at the post-fight press conference the UFC posted to YouTube. CBS Sports went a step further in its takeaways and argued that she needs to walk away on top.
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The case for that argument is long. Harrison entered at 19-1, per our rankings data. She won judo gold at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, took the PFL lightweight tournament in 2019 and again in 2021, beat Holly Holm in her UFC debut in 2024 and won the bantamweight belt in June 2025 with a second-round kimura on Julianna Peña. She’s the first woman to hold both an Olympic gold medal and a UFC title. Adding Nunes to that list is about as clean a final page as this sport offers. Nunes is the only woman to win UFC titles in two divisions, and she held both at once.
I’ll say this about the crowd claiming Harrison looked bad for four minutes of every round. Grinding a former two-division champion until the back opens up in the fourth round is how a judoka with a gas tank is supposed to win that fight. It doesn’t have to be pretty when the finish is a choke.
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The co-main storyline belonged to Josh Hokit, who CBS Sports said nearly completed a perfect year at UFC 334. He’d already owned fight week. At the Thursday presser, sitting across from Nunes, he delivered a crude line about which side of the table liked what. Nunes laughed and dapped him up, according to clips shared by Happy Punch and Championship Rounds. She and Kevin Holland were still talking about it while cutting weight, per a UFC clip.
If Harrison follows through and retires, the bantamweight belt goes vacant with Nunes, freshly choked, still the most famous name in the division. That would be an awkward coronation for anyone.
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