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She is already the poster girl for the Professional Fighters League, competing as a lightweight, "which is essentially the heavyweight division for women," ESPN recently said.

Harrison, an athlete with a powerful upper body who fights on solid legs, is a head-kicking, judo-throwing, armbar-submitting Ohioan who fights out of the famed American Top Team in Florida.

"For me, the comparisons are like, OK, we both did judo and we both have blond hair," Harrison told Business Insider. "But, really, when you look at it, I'm not trying to talk down, at all, but Ronda won a silver medal at the world championships and she won bronze at the Olympics."


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