Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm “very intrigued” by the prospect of fighting Ireland’s surging superstar, Katie Taylor. Holm, who is one of the finest boxers in the sport of MMA, told The MMA Hour that, after seeing Taylor fight Amanda Serrano at Madison Square Garden this weekend, she’s considering a return to the sweet science.
“We had talked, Taylor and myself, before I wound up going to MMA. We had talked about a possible fight there. 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.
Holly Holm Wants to Box Katie Taylor
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.” Holm continued, pointing out that a return to boxing is looking very tempting indeed.
“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. 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.”
Most exciting is the fact that both fighters on Saturday night delivered a show-stopping performance. “You don’t ever want it to be this big awaited fight and then just one person getting schooled. I figured it would be a split decision, if anything. I knew it was going to be a really close battle, a back-and-forth fight.
They’re both really good boxers. A little bit towards the end, they just started swinging, just slugging. And I guess when you’re in those later rounds, it’s like, ‘Let’s just go.’ I knew I would see back-and-forth, like a fight, but it was kind of even a little bit of a brawl at the end, just throwing.” Do you want to see Taylor vs Holm? Let us know in the comments.
