With an utterly dominant dismantling of Julianna Peña, Kayla Harrison took home more than just a piece of hardware. Now Harrison (19-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) tops our women's MMA pound-for-pound list after her submission of Peña (13-6 MMA,

Harrison barely had minutes to cool down after a dominant submission win earned her the 135-pound championship — in front of a packed house that included President Donald Trump and former boxer Mike Tyson — when she called out the seemingly retired, former champion and 2025 UFC Hall of Fame inductee Amanda Nunes.

Merab Dvalishvili is becoming the kind of problem for the bantamweight division that there is currently no answers for. At 34, the proud native of Georgia continues to make his claim for both inclusion in the conversation of pound-for-pound best in the sport and the increasing likelihood that he one day finishes his 135-pound title reign as the best bantamweight in the sport's history.

Harrison won the UFC women’s bantamweight title with a second-round submission victory over Julianna Peña in the co-main event of UFC 316. The win is the culmination of the two-time Olympic gold medalist’s MMA journey,

Julianna Pena takes on Kayla Harrison for the women’s bantamweight title in the co-main event of UFC 316 . While the stars are aligning for Harrison to emerge as champion and begin her run as the face of women’s MMA, Pena won’t go down without a fight.

UFC women's bantamweight contender Kayla Harrison has fans worried after she went through a brutal weight cut for her UFC 316 title fight against Julianna

In the headliner, bantamweight champion champion Merab Dvalishvili (19-4 MMA, 12-2 UFC) takes on challenger and ex-champ Sean O'Malley (18-2 MMA, 10-2 UFC) in a rematch. In the co-feature, women's bantamweight titleholder Julianna Peña (13-5 MMA,