Former undisputed UFC bantamweight champion, Holly Holm has revealed she is weighing up each a possible return to skilled boxing, in addition to the continuation of her combined martial arts profession in a mooted transfer to the GFL (International Struggle League).
Holm, a former undisputed bantamweight champion and prior featherweight title challenger throughout her prolonged tenure within the UFC, was handed her official launch from the Dana White-led promotion earlier this week, upon request as she retained quite a lot of fights on her deal.
Sidelined since final April, Alquerque hanging veteran, Holly Holm most not too long ago suffered a one-sided second spherical rear-naked choke submission loss to surging contender, Kayla Harrison on the preliminary card of UFC 300.
Holly Holm weighing up each boxing and GFL strikes after UFC exit
And off the again of her departure from the UFC, boxing Corridor of Fame inductee, Holm confirmed plans to probably compete within the squared circle one final time — in addition to within the cage.
“I know that I’m not going to fight forever, but I still want a couple more, and I had been in a little bit of talks just trying to see if anything would happen, and I did want to be able to dance in the UFC octagon one more time, but it just didn’t seem like it was something that was going to be promised, and so I did have two fights left on the contract, but, you know, that’s not always promised, and I didn’t want to wait around forever either, so I want to see what other options there are,” Holly Holm instructed Ariel Helwani for Uncrowned.
“There’s no negative thoughts, no hate, or anything like that. I’m super, super thankful for my entire journey with the UFC and all the opportunities that they’ve given me and being able to fight for a title, and I just, I’m super thankful for the journey, and I’m not done.”
“I know I still have a couple fights left in me, and I wanna see what doors open up. Maybe I go to boxing. I know there’s a lot of talk with GFL so I’m just leaving my options open.”
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“Maybe I go to boxing,” Holly Holm defined. “I do know there’s plenty of discuss with GFL, so I’m simply leaving my choices open. After I boxed, I fought at 140, 147, and 154. I by no means fought at 135 in boxing, so generally I really feel prefer it’s unfinished enterprise. Do I am going again? And the those who have, you already know, belts at that weight class are Serrano and Taylor, so generally it’s like, is that unfinished enterprise? As a result of that’s most of my fights in MMA. I imply, majority of them had been at 135, however I by no means fought at 135 in boxing, so who is aware of?
