UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm appeared recently on Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour, and took the boxing media to task. Holm is the most decorated boxer to ever fight in MMA, but she says she has received more coverage from the boxing media since she left the sport than she received when she was world champion.

Holm won Ring Magazine female boxer of the year, twice, and won world titles in three weight divisions. But outside of her hometown of Albuquerque, where she is enormously popular, she received scant coverage from the boxing media.

In MMA, she is a star.

Holm’s remarks are all the more compelling as she is a genuinely sweet and decent person. For example, she fights Miesha Tate in the main event of UFC 196 Saturday night, and the they are making each other friendship bracelets. So when she something is bad, it’s bad.

“That’s a two-sided thing there,” said Holm, as transcribed by Marc Raimondi for MMA Fighting. “There’s probably been more articles written in boxing now that I’m doing MMA. In a way, that’s great. Thank you guys for supporting me. But where were you my whole boxing career? I’ll call them out on it. I’m not trying to be sweet about it.

“For me, it wasn’t like, ‘Oh I need spotlight. It was more like, ‘Let’s have opportunities so that women’s boxing can grow.’ If it’s gonna bring attention to women’s boxing, great. But if they ever ask me about it, I’ll often call them out on it and ask, why now? You could have been covering this a long time ago.”

“I love that (boxing media) are supporting. And the fact that it brings any attention to boxing, great. Because I want there to be more attention on women’s boxing, because I always wished it was there.”