Holly Holm Still Wants to Avenge Loss to Miesha Tate

Holly Holm spoke with MMAjunkie for a new interview. Some highlights are below:

On Miesha Tate’s title loss to Amanda Nunes: “I wanted to be the one to do it, that’s for sure. Anybody that beats me, as much as people say, ‘So you want her to go lose now?’ I’m like, ‘No, because if she beat me, she better beat everybody else.’ They get beat, that shows you’re maybe not as good if you really look at the big picture. I don’t really want them to go lose now. I want them to beat everybody. If they beat me, they better go beat everybody. So, yeah, it’s one of those things. Of course, I wish that would have been me in my fight with Miesha instead of Amanda doing it. But I have my fight in front of me, so I was just watching to see what happened.”

On a potential fight with Tate: “I want to avenge a loss. No matter what. Whether she had the belt or not, I’d still hate the fact that I lost the fight. Whether it’d have been for the belt or not. I want to win no matter what; it doesn’t matter if it’s for the belt or not. So yeah, it left a sour taste in my mouth just the loss in itself, belt or no belt. It still would have bothered me.”

On learning from her loss to Tate: “Mentally, after a loss you just deal with your own doubt in your own mind – but it also kind of fuels the fire at the same time of what you need to do to get better. Not that I didn’t know I needed to work on my ground game. It’s just that constant reminder of how much I needed. But I’ve always wanted to learn and I’ve always needed to know more and do more. With any of it. I’m still working on my jab, my goodness. I know I need to work on all of it.”