{"id":81347,"date":"2026-11-15T00:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T05:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/us-olympic-hero-kayla-harrison-chokes-out-amanda-nunes-in-fourth-round-to-retain-ufc-title\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T00:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T05:55:18","slug":"us-olympic-hero-kayla-harrison-chokes-out-amanda-nunes-in-fourth-round-to-retain-ufc-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/us-olympic-hero-kayla-harrison-chokes-out-amanda-nunes-in-fourth-round-to-retain-ufc-title\/","title":{"rendered":"US Olympic hero Kayla Harrison chokes out Amanda Nunes in fourth round to retain UFC title"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Two-time Olympic judo champion submits MMA legend<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Nunes falls short in return from three-year retirement<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Stephen Thompson signs off with spectacular knockout<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kayla Harrison retained her UFC bantamweight championship with a fourth-round submission of Amanda Nunes on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, spoiling the comeback of the woman widely regarded as the greatest female fighter in MMA history.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison (20-1) had plenty to prove in her first title defense against Nunes, who ended a three-year retirement for the eagerly anticipated showdown in the co-main event of UFC 334. It was also Harrison\u2019s first fight since June 2025 after spinal fusion surgery in January to address a neck injury delayed the contest.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/nov\/15\/kayla-harrison-amanda-nunes-ufc-334-ciryl-gane-josh-hokit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-time Olympic judo champion submits MMA legend Nunes falls short in return from three-year retirement Stephen Thompson signs off with spectacular knockout Kayla Harrison retained her UFC bantamweight championship with a fourth-round submission of Amanda Nunes on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden, spoiling the comeback of the woman widely regarded as the greatest female &#8230; <a title=\"US Olympic hero Kayla Harrison chokes out Amanda Nunes in fourth round to retain UFC title\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/15\/us-olympic-hero-kayla-harrison-chokes-out-amanda-nunes-in-fourth-round-to-retain-ufc-title\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US Olympic hero Kayla Harrison chokes out Amanda Nunes in fourth round to retain UFC title\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}