On Monday, former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Holly Holm appeared as a guest on The MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani at MMAFighting.com and spoke about her Octagon status, as well as her thoughts on the return of Ronda Rousey.
Regarding the fact that Rousey is fighting Amanda Nunes instead of Holm in an immediate rematch, which was talked about for months after their initial meeting in Melbourne, Australia, a fight that “The Preacher’s Daughter” won by crushing head-kick knockout, Holm claims that because her last two fights since then were losses, she doesn’t feel the right to dictate who, when and where she will fight.
“You know, honestly, I don’t feel like I’m in a spot to say what I want,” she said. “I didn’t have good performances in my last two fights, so why should I sit here and walk around and say what I deserve? I’ve never done that in my career anyway. I’m curious to watch the fight and see how it turns out, but I’m not by any means pissed off about it or anything. I’ll just have to…I just want to keep training and win whatever fight might come my way, and that’s it.”
Holm also mentioned that her thumb, which she broke in her last fight, a loss to Valentina Shevchenko, is about 80-percent healed. She mentioned wanting to be 100 percent before going back to the drawing board, but did claim that she will likely schedule her next fight in the next couple of weeks.
“I’m sure we’ll schedule something in the next few weeks,” she said. ”I know [the UFC] probably don’t want to set something 100 percent until I’m 100 percent released to train. I think we’re getting close to figuring that out, but definitely no specific answer right now.”
As far as who will be standing across the Octagon from Holm in her next fight, “The Preacher’s Daughter” claims she doesn’t care who she fights next, she simply wants to stay busy as always.
“No, I just want to fight, and I want to win,” she said. “That’s my goal. That’s really as simple as I want to think. What fight it is, it really doesn’t matter to me. I want to win just as badly whether it’s on a big card or not. I want to win even if it’s not on TV. Even in practice, I still want to punch my teammates more than they hit me. That’s the name of the game. I am just focused on a victory, and that’s it.”
