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Kayla Harrison opens up on brutal year that nearly drove her into retirement: 'I wasn't even crawling'

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What happened

The reigning UFC women's bantamweight champion spent most of 2026 recovering from a nightmarish, nearly career-ending neck injury. "I wasn't very good for a very long time," she says.

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