After signing a new, multi-year contract with the UFC in Las Vegas this past Saturday, UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Holly Holm is still unsure who she will be defending the title against in her first defense since capturing the belt from Ronda Rousey in November.
Holm spoke with Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of “The MMA Hour” at MMAFighting.com and claimed that she doesn’t even know if Rousey wants an immediate rematch, or if she will be making her first title defense against a different UFC Women’s Bantamweight contender.
“If I fight sooner rather than later it won’t be a rematch, but it’s still possible to get a rematch. But they haven’t announced anything exact yet. I guess we will wait and see how the cards unfold. I’m not going anywhere, but I will be fighting, hopefully sooner than later. I just don’t want to wait around for things if they are not set in stone. A lot of people have been talking about the rematch, but nobody knows for sure. I haven’t even heard from Ronda if she wants it yet or not or if she’s occupied with other things right now. That’s the hardest thing for me. If I knew something was set in stone, then maybe I would think about it a little more. I just don’t want to wait around for something that may not happen.”
While she claims not to know herself who she will be standing across from in her next Octagon appearance, she did mention that the UFC is planning to officially announce who she will be making her first title defense against this week.
“The UFC will be having an announcement this week and they’ll be announcing it. I’m not at liberty to discuss the contract and that was part of the contract so I can’t discuss any of that but the UFC will be making an announcement this week I’m pretty sure.”
