When is the right time to return to life as a combat sports athlete from the worst kind of personal tragedy? Is there even a right answer?
Perhaps not, but in the case of Walt Harris — whose stepdaughter Aniah Blanchard was killed in late 2019 — taking barely half a year before returning to the UFC to face fellow heavyweight heavy-hitter Alistair Overeem in a main event wasn’t enough time to get his mindset right.
Likewise for the subsequent bouts against Alexander Volkov and Marcin Tybura over the ensuing 13 months, with all three ending via TKO loss.
“I think I came back, after I lost my daughter, way, way too fast,” Harris told The Post during a recent Zoom call. “I was running from what I was dealing with, and I felt like the only way to deal with it at the time, I thought, was to fight, to train, which it helped me in some senses.
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