A potential threepeat has come into view for
Kayla
Harrison.
The two-time defending
Professional Fighters League champion will confront
Martina
Jindrova when their 2022 women’s lightweight semifinal
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PFL 9 on Saturday at Copperbox Arena in London, with the victor
moving on for a shot at $1 million in November. Harrison, a
prohibitive favorite to win the tournament, carries a perfect 14-0
record into the cage. She last appeared at PFL 6, where she
dispatched
Kaitlin
Young with punches less than three minutes into their July 1
encounter. Jindrova, meanwhile, has rattled off three consecutive
victories. She punched her ticket to the semifinals by defeating
Vanessa
Melo and
Zamzagul
Fayzallanova in back-to-back outings.
In advance of their Harrison-Jindrova showdown at 155 pounds, a
look at some of the numbers that have accompanied them to this
point:
32: Years of age for Harrison, who was born in Middletown, Ohio, on
July 2, 1990.
6: Harrison victories by knockout or technical knockout, accounting
for 43% of her career total (14). Her list of victims: Young,
Genah
Fabian,
Mariana
Morais,
Courtney
King,
Moriel
Charneski and
Jozette
Cotton. Harrison holds five other victories by submission (36%)
and three more by decision (21%).
83: Seconds needed for Harrison to put away Morais with punches at
PFL 3 in May 2021. More than a year later, it remains the
American Top Team rep’s fastest finish to date.
5: Consecutive calendar years in which Harrison has competed as a
mixed martial artist. In addition to her 2-0 mark in 2022, the
two-time Olympic gold medalist went 3-0 in 2018, 4-0 in 2019, 1-0
in 2020 and 4-0 in 2021.
.774: Cumulative winning percentage between the two women—
Larissa
Pacheco (twice) and
Marina
Mokhnatkina—Harrison has failed to stop. They boast a combined
record of 24-7.
31: Years of age for Jindrova, who was born on Jan. 26, 1991 in
Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
2: Jindrova wins by knockout or technical knockout, accounting for
33% of her career total (six). Her list of victims: Fayzallanova
and
Inga
Kaledaite. She owns one other win by submission (17%) and three
more by decision (50%).
47: Seconds needed for Jindrova to take out Kaledaite with punches
at an I Am Fighter show on Oct. 10, 2019. It ranks as the quickest
of the three first-round finishes on her resume.
3: Countries in which Jindrova has plied her mixed martial arts
trade. She has gone 2-2 in her native Czech Republic, 3-0 in the
United States and 1-0 in Cameroon.
10: Combined victories between the two women—
Karolina
Sobek and
Tamires
Vidal—who have beaten Jindrova. They sport a .909 cumulative
winning percentage (10-1).