Holm: July too long to wait
Holly Holm: “The only thing about July is that it’s eight months away from my last fight…“That’s the biggest thing. I don’t like to wait that long.”
UFC President Dana White has said that he would like Holly Holm’s first title defense to be at UFC 200 in a rematch with Ronda Rousey. Holm herself would rather take a fighter and explained her reasoning:
UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm doesn’t care what opponent she faces in her first title defense. Of bigger concern is the amount of time she’ll have to wait to fight.
The only thing about July is that it’s eight months away from my last fight, she told MMAjunkie on Saturday. That’s the biggest thing. I don’t like to wait that long.
I feel like a rematch is just the unspoken, yeah, that’s got to happen, she told MMAjunkie. A fight in between now and then, I feel like that’s like, yes, let’s stay active. There’s a lot of things that can be.
In boxing, I did 10 years straight of having four fights a year, and so to weight eight months, it’s out of my norm.
