Holm willing to fight outside her weight class
Holly Holm recently said in an interview she is happy to fight Cris Cyborg, or for that matter, anyone else outside of the bantamweight division.
When Ronda Rousey was the UFC women’s bantamweight champion, she refused to fight Cris Cyborg at any weight except the bantamweight limit. But for new champion, Holly Holm, she is more than welcome to fight Cyborg or anyone else for that matter at a different weight class. Holm recently spoke to MMA Weekly about fighting out of her weight class and a potential fight with Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino:
Soon after Rousey lost, Cyborg released a statement saying that she and her camp had determined, after months of trying, that she could not safely get down to 135 pounds, so she was ending her pursuit of a UFC bantamweight title fight.
That doesn’t mean that all hopes of a marquee cross-promotional match-up are off the table. Holm, the new UFC bantamweight champion, is open to the idea of fighting outside of her weight class. She doesn’t seem so sure the UFC would ever go for it, but she’d consider fighting outside of her current weight class.