Holly Holm has been struggling to get in back in the cage after dealing with a lot outside of the octagon. The former UFC bantamweight champion recently felt the need to speak out after everyone thought she was retired.

Holly Holm was set to return to the cage but an injury and surgery forced her to pull out of the fight. Her return to the UFC cage has been very frustrating for her recently.

“I was so close to getting there. It’s like one thing after another,” Holm told MMA Fighting. “It’s one of those times you have to sit back and say ‘OK, this is where my journey’s been’ and you make the most of it and just move forward from here. There’s nothing I can really do about it. We’re just going forward now.”

“I had to have surgery. It was a piece of bone fragment floating around up there. They had to clean up a few things but I did have to have surgery. But we’re up and we’re cranking and we’re pushing forward.”

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The frustration has been adding up for Holly Holm as UFC fans have been coming up to her and asking if she is retired. The former champion has been trying to return to the cage.

“I’m definitely super frustrated, especially when people are like ‘are you retired?’” UFC bantamweight Holm said. “I’m like no! Not retired! But I can see them maybe thinking that because they haven’t seen me fight. I want to show them what I’ve got and especially because my last fight, I got to show even more of my game from what had been seen before. I get excited cause I want to show more and show more and I keep running into these barriers. It’s definitely frustrating.

“I feel myself getting anxiety sometimes cause it’s like you feel like you want to go and you can. You feel like you’ve got to go and you want to go and you cant. Then you start overthinking things. I’ve learned I just have to take it day-by-day or I’m going to worry myself doing nothing. Not even moving forward. I always want to move forward so I try to stay as positive as I can.”