Holly Holm was watching the UFC 200 main event with a vested interest. Miesha Tate is the women who took her bantamweight title and was hopefully Tate would win and keep her title. Holm will fight again before getting a crack at the title again, but for her, avenging the loss to Tate might be even more important than fighting for the title again:

I wanted to be the one to do it, that’s for sure, Holm told reporters a few days prior to her FOX-televised headliner on Saturday at United Center in Chicago. Anybody that beats me, as much as people say, ‘So you want her to go lose now?’ I’m like, ‘No, because if she beat me, she better beat everybody else.’ They get beat, that shows you’re maybe not as good if you really look at the big picture. I don’t really want them to go lose now. I want them to beat everybody. If they beat me, they better go beat everybody. So, yeah, it’s one of those things.

Of course, I wish that would have been me in my fight with Miesha instead of Amanda doing it. But I have my fight in front of me, so I was just watching to see what happened.

I want to avenge a loss, Holm said. No matter what. Whether she had the belt or not, I’d still hate the fact that I lost the fight. Whether it’d have been for the belt or not. I want to win no matter what; it doesn’t matter if it’s for the belt or not. So yeah, it left a sour taste in my mouth just the loss in itself, belt or no belt. It still would have bothered me.

source: mmajunkie.com