{"id":176190,"date":"2015-11-18T07:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=176190"},"modified":"2022-02-04T17:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T01:31:55","slug":"holly-holm-claimed-ronda-rousey-was-beatable-before-her-first-ufc-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/holly-holm-claimed-ronda-rousey-was-beatable-before-her-first-ufc-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Holm claimed Ronda Rousey was beatable before her first UFC match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even before her first fight with <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/replay-raquel-pennington-vs-holly-holm-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Raquel Pennington at UFC 184<\/a>, UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion Holly Holm claimed Ronda Rousey\u00a0was beatable. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2015\/11\/even-before-she-fought-in-ufc-holly-holm-said-ronda-rousey-was-beatable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video interview<\/a> before her UFC debut, Holm had much praise for the champ at that time but knew she was beatable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think she\u2019s great, she\u2019s ran through everybody and made it look easy,\u201d Holm said of Rousey. \u201cIs it tough to beat her? Absolutely. I think everybody\u2019s tried to bring their best game. But on the flip side, everyone is beatable. Everybody\u2019s human and everybody\u2019s beatable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the biggest thing for me if I think about a fight that big,\u201d Holm said, \u201cis you have to walk in there believing in yourself. This is how I\u2019ve always felt from the very beginning of my career. If you don\u2019t even feel like you can do it, you shouldn\u2019t be in there, because you\u2019ve already lost mentally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holm walked into her fight at <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/ufc-193-live-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFC 193<\/a> with that exact mentality and it proved to be a winning formula with a stunning <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/replay-holm-knocks-out-rousey-becomes-ufc-champion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">knockout of the heavily favored Ronda Rousey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the expectation that there will be an immediate rematch, Holm said in her appearance on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/GMA\/video\/holly-holm-speaks-ronda-rousey-upset-35249628\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Good Morning America<\/a>,\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll train twice as hard as I did for the first one, because I know she\u2019ll be coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even before her first fight with Raquel Pennington at UFC 184, UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion Holly Holm claimed Ronda Rousey\u00a0was beatable. In a video interview before her UFC debut, Holm had much praise for the champ at that time but knew she was beatable. \u201cI think she\u2019s great, she\u2019s ran through everybody and made it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54422,"featured_media":175972,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Holly Holm claimed Ronda Rousey was beatable before her first UFC match | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/holly-holm-claimed-ronda-rousey-was-beatable-before-her-first-ufc-match\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Holly Holm claimed Ronda Rousey was beatable before her first UFC match | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Even before her first fight with Raquel Pennington at UFC 184, UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion Holly Holm claimed Ronda Rousey\u00a0was beatable. 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