Two-time PFL champ Kayla Harrison will now face Kaitlin Young within the headliner of PFL 6 after an undisclosed damage to Julia Budd.
MMA Preventing confirmed the information of Budd’s withdrawal and Harrison’s new opponent with an individual near the fighters after an preliminary report from ESPN.com. PFL 6 takes place July 1 at OTE in Atlanta and airs on ESPN and ESPN+.
Younger, a ladies’s MMA pioneer, returned to the lively roster in 2018 after a stint behind the scenes as a matchmaker for InvictaFC. She’s since earned a document of 5-3, combating in Rizin, the all-female Invicta and the PFL, the place she was eradicated from the Season 3 light-weight post-season following a pair of setbacks.
Budd, a former Bellator featherweight champion, was to make her third PFL look and hoped to bounce again after a call loss to Season 3 finalist Genah Fabian in her earlier outing.
Younger faces the steep activity of handing Harrison her first skilled MMA loss. The Olympic gold medal judoka has ravaged the sector at 155 kilos and is returning for her third championship and $1 million prize after a short interval of free company.
