{"id":265129,"date":"2017-12-06T09:22:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T17:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=265129"},"modified":"2017-12-06T09:22:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T17:22:04","slug":"dana-white-discusses-boxing-promotion-holly-holm-addresses-possible-return-sweet-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/holly-holm\/dana-white-discusses-boxing-promotion-holly-holm-addresses-possible-return-sweet-science\/","title":{"rendered":"After Dana White discusses boxing promotion, Holly Holm addresses possible return to the sweet science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, UFC President Dana White announced that he and the UFC&#8217;s other top decision-makers were<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/dana-white\/dana-white-ufc-bring-boxing-events-umbrella\/\"> floating the idea of promoting boxing matches<\/a> in the future. This news is likely to have sounded interesting to <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/anderson-silva\/anderson-silva-roy-jones-jr-attempting-set-fight\/\">a number of the UFC&#8217;s boxing savvy fighters<\/a> \u2013 particularly upcoming women&#8217;s featherweight title challenger Holly Holm, who was a boxing champion long before her UFC career began.<\/p>\n<p>While it would be fair to assume this news might interest Holm, however, it apparently doesn&#8217;t. Speaking to the media during the festivities for UFC 218 in Detroit, where she was a guest fighter, she assured that her boxing career is over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am done boxing,\u201d Holm said (h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/mmajunkie.com\/2017\/12\/ufc-holly-holm-boxing-career-done-zuffa-boxing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>). \u201cI don\u2019t have the passion for it any more, and it hasn\u2019t come back to me. Maybe that\u2019s because I\u2019m still fighting [in MMA], so I don\u2019t feel like I ever really retired [from boxing].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holm then recounted the phase in which she began to realize that her boxing career was drawing to a close. It was around the time of the third win of her pro MMA career, when she knocked out\u00a0<span>Katie Merril at Bellator 91. Though she was scheduled for a boxing match a few months later, she found herself with very little motivation to return to the ring.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know how I would feel when that fight was over, with a win if I\u2019d be excited and want to do it again,\u201d Holm said of her final boxing bout. \u201cWith a loss, I\u2019d probably want to do it again, because I wouldn\u2019t want to end like that. When the fight was over, it was beautiful. It was in my hometown and they brought a beautiful bouquet, and I\u2019m standing there thinking, \u2018I can\u2019t wait to take my boxing shoes off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd, that\u2019s it. I keep thinking, am I going to ache for it again? And I don\u2019t. And it\u2019s not because I don\u2019t love boxing. I did, obviously. I did it for <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/cris-cyborg-justino\/pro-boxer-cecilia-braekhus-believes-holly-holm-one-major-surprise-cris-cyborg\/\">10 years professionally<\/a>. It\u2019s just my new motivation is this new career I\u2019ve been on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Holly Holm returns to the Octagon in the main event of UFC 219 when she challenges <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/fighter\/cris-cyborg\">Cris Cyborg<\/a> for the featherweight belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 6\/12\/2017.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, UFC President Dana White announced that he and the UFC&#8217;s other top decision-makers were floating the idea of promoting boxing matches in the future. 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