UFC on ESPN 8 wasn’t the storybook ending to an emotional fight build-up for heavyweight Walt Harris – but it was a learning experience. Seven months after his stepdaughter, Aniah Blanchard, was kidnapped and killed, Harris (23-8 MMA, 14-6 UFC) stepped into his first UFC main event against Alistair Overeem in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite nearly finishing Overeem in the first round, a drained Harris was finished by ground-and-pound in Round 2. “I don’t want to say it was easy to get over, because I never take losing easy,” Harris recently told MMA Junkie. “I really don’t like losing.

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