Holly Holm ready for Ronda Rousey rematch

The biggest infinitesimal successful Holly Holm's (44) vocation came a decennary ago, connected November 15, 2015, erstwhile she stunned the satellite with a spectacular knockout to the caput and ended the reign of Ronda Rousey, the past UFC bantamweight champion. Although the rematch ne'er happened, Holm has made it wide today, amid rumors of a Rousey comeback, that she is acceptable to measurement into the ringing with her again.

"I was ever unfastened to a rematch with her. I inactive am. She's training," Holm said during an quality connected The Ariel Helwani Show. "I was ever unfastened to a rematch with Ronda. I conscionable don't cognize if she ever wanted it and the connection inactive stands. I'm inactive here."

Rousey hasn't fought since December 2016

Rousey hasn't fought since December 2016. The 38-year-old precocious gave commencement to her 2nd kid and has started posting grooming videos, showing that she has fallen successful emotion with MMA again. Holm admits that she's not wholly definite however realistic a instrumentality is.

"I don't know," she said erstwhile asked if Rousey would return. "I don't cognize if she will. I mean, that's the happening astir immoderate athlete. She was an Olympian. She was a champion, and you don't get to that constituent without a combat successful you. So you tin ne'er constitute anyone off. Maybe she'll travel back."

On the different hand, Holm understands that Rousey mightiness beryllium enjoying beingness extracurricular the ring. "She has a family. There's thing incorrect with that. Maybe she's conscionable enjoying her beingness that way. Maybe she's enjoying being capable to get backmost to grooming and things similar that. Maybe she's like, 'You cognize what, I truly miss this. I privation to effort it.'"

Holm besides stressed that she's acceptable to combat successful immoderate arena. She recalled her ain vocation and her instrumentality to boxing aft devoting herself afloat to MMA. "I near boxing. And erstwhile I went into MMA full-time, I thought I would ne'er get backmost into boxing, and present I americium again successful boxing due to the fact that I was starting to miss it. If she truly wanted to, I don't deliberation she would, but I'm not penning it off. Every jock who's fought, oregon been astatine the apical level, got determination due to the fact that they had passion. So if she feels that and wants to travel backmost and bash something, past great."

She ended by sending a wide message: "I mean, if she comes back, great. I would emotion to beryllium the 1 she fights if she comes back, whether it's successful boxing oregon MMA."