Holly Holm ready for another boxing match | MMA News
Former UFC ladies’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm returned to the boxing ring for the first time in 12 years on June 28 in Anaheim, California. Holm put on a commanding efficiency outclassing Yolanda Vega on the Jake Paul vs. Julio Cesar Chávez Jr. combat card.
Holm could not keep in mind the final time she had been inside a boxing ring. She also did not spar in boxing sneakers.
“It was fun. I’ve been excited to box but there’s so many nerves going into a fight. That never changes. The day that I don’t get nervous is the day I know I need to not be fighting. I care to win. I want to win,” Holm stated during the Paul vs. Chavez Jr. Post-Fight Press Conference.
“Just getting in there and feeling out the actual ring again. That’s the first time that I’ve actually been in a ring, I don’t know, because I don’t spar in a ring. I don’t. I spar in my MMA gym. I only sparred two days in shoes. I was barefoot this whole champ. It’s just how I train,” continued Holm.
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“I did that a lot before when I was boxing, so it’s not just because I did MMA. It was kind of like, I’m going to put on some boxing shoes and get in this ring and I hadn’t been in a ring in that long really.”
With the dominating win in her return, Holm is itching to get back in the squared circle again.
“I got in there and it was just fun. It still felt like home. It didn’t feel foreign. I had a good time, so I’m ready for another one,” she stated.
Before turning into the UFC ladies’s bantamweight champion was a world class boxer. From 2002 until 2013, Holm was a multiple-time world champion. She defended her boxing titles 18 instances in three weight lessons.
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