And if Tate were to finally win the bantamweight title in Las Vegas, the first post-fight query would surely centre on a third fight with her nemesis.
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Rather than promote the present and future of the women’s division with Holm, Tate and the women that are, you know, now fighting, White continues to hitch his wagon to a woman show has shown lukewarm interest in a rematch with Holm. Tate was so bitter she even contemplated retirement. I watched some videos last night of some old school rivalries, and Buster Douglas was a 50-1 underdog when he fought Mike Tyson and nobody thought he could do it. He actually went out there, got dropped and hurt bad and then came back and was able to win the fight.
“My goal is to get that belt put around my waist again”, she said.
Cameras on, cameras off, she’s the same mild-mannered person.
Speaking to Chael Sonnen, Laila Ali said of Holm, “I personally do not think that she’ll [Rousey] beat Holly Holm”.
As for Holm, she sees the danger of Tate in a more holistic way. McGregor is a featherweight champion fighting a lightweight opponent at the welterweight limit Saturday, March 5, 2016, at UFC 196. Being the champion is what matters to me and that’s why I got into this sport.
While Holm’s boxing experience gave her a head-start in some ways, it also meant she had more habits that needed breaking: “I couldn’t stand inside and box too much in MMA, because if you do that someone is just going to take you down”. Holm is explosive power that is nearly infallible keeping her rival away with destructive blows. Her father, Roger Holm, is a preacher at Edgewood Church of Christ in Edgewood, N.M.
Q: How much does your previous success in the boxing world help you compartmentalize some of this and make Fight Week, as stressful as it is, a little bit less stressful and allow you to deal with everything that’s coming at you? With a golden opportunity staring her dead in the eyes, Tate is hinting that she’s willing to play Holm’s game because she thinks her chin is “suspect”. Her opponent is Miesha Tate, who lost twice to Rousey, but hasn’t lost since 2013.
In a report by MMA Junkie, Holm says while she remains focused on the task at hand, she is not sure if she will indeed be ending up facing Rousey as expected.
‘We don’t know exactly how good she is on the ground or how good her wrestling is, there are a lot of unknowns.
“When you’re as surrounded by greatness as I am”, Holm asked, “how can you not feel you’re ready to do something great?” “That’s as far as my mind will let me go, that’s as far as my heart and my passion will let me to go”, Holm said. But for the most part, unless you’ve got a “Mr. T”-type villain, then [the event] is driven nearly entirely by the favorite, the champion or the star”. Before that, Holm was a world champion boxer in three weight classes, defending belts 18 times and winning two fighter of the year awards. “It’s been quite character-forging, I’ll put it that way”, Tate said.
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It’s nearly more satisfying to me that everyone else is like, ‘What’s going on?
