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Kayla Harrison has competed just once under the UFC banner, but she is already making some enemies in the form of former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Julianna Pena.
Pena has previously accused Harrison of PED usage and Harrison is not happy with the accusations.
“It pisses me off,” Harrison said on The MMA Hour. “Number one, it pisses me off because never once have I tested positive for anything, ever, in the history of my very long drug-testing career. And number two, don’t f*cking say things like that if you don’t have hard evidence. That’s a serious thing to talk about, to me. I take cheating very seriously.
“I have always competed clean, I carry myself to a high standard, and I know that I haven’t always competed against people who were clean, but I’m not going to throw accusations out just because I feel like I think they’re not clean. That’s bullshit. And I think it’s bullshit because she’s just building in an excuse for when I whoop her ass.
“So I’m annoyed by it, and at the same time, what a compliment. I’m 100 percent natty and you all think I’m on steroids. Because God forbid anyone ever work hard and be disciplined and have a great team around them and have results from that. God forbid anyone train from the time they were six years until until the time they’re 34 years old and develop a physique that was built to beat the shit out of people. God forbid someone believe in themselves and work hard and succeed. It’s f*cked up. She’s got to be cheating!”
Harrison, who has primarily competed in the UFC and PFL during her MMA career, has never failed a drug test.
The fighter also says she has been tested by USADA and WADA well before her time as a professional MMA fighter.
“Twelve [years old]. I was in middle school,” Harrison said. “I remember it vividly because they went to my middle school and I was actually home sick that day. I was in the top five on the national roster for judo, and once you enter the top five, you automatically go into USADA’s drug testing pool.
“I’ve never failed a single test, never had anything. I think I’ve had — not a failed test but where you miss [the tester], they come and you’re not [there], I’ve had maybe two or three of those my whole life. There was a point where I was getting drug-tested — because you also get drug tested in competition by WADA when you compete on the international circuit — there was a point, I think in December of 2015 before the Olympics, where I got drug tested in China, drug tested in Korea, drug tested in Japan, then I came home and got drug tested. So I got drug tested four times in the span of one month.”
