Holly Holm is at a strange point in her career as she's fought for multiple belts in the UFC and the ride is nearing its end. Recently, Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor inspired her to potentially make a return to boxing.
More specifically, Holly Holm has her eye on a potential boxing match with Katie Taylor. The former UFC champion had talked about potentially facing her in the past.
“We had talked, Taylor and myself before I wound up going to MMA. We had talked about a possible fight there,” Holm said on Monday’s episode of The MMA Hour. “I always want to do something that hasn’t been done. I always get super intrigued by things, and I fought at three weight divisions, ‘40, ‘47, and ‘54, and I never got to fight at ‘35.
“But I’ve done most of my MMA career at ‘35, and that’s what their fight was at. So it makes me like, ‘I want to go back in and show what I can do at a whole different weight class.’
“I never even fought at that weight class when I was in boxing and I think I’m bigger and stronger than a lot of the 135ers, and I still have conditioning and I still have a lot of that ring experience behind me.”
Holly Holm had sworn off boxing in the past but Amanda Serrano and Katie Taylor actually inspired her to potentially come back. The former UFC champion wants to potentially juggle MMA and boxing.
“It does intrigue me. A lot. To the point where, before, I was like, ‘I’ll never box again,’ and I’m not saying that,” she said. “There’s been a lot of people that have been able to transition back and forth, but nobody’s really been able to do it successfully, and that drives me.
“I want to show people I was able to come to MMA from boxing but I can also go back. It does get me excited.”
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