{"id":277771,"date":"2018-06-04T08:50:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=277771"},"modified":"2018-06-04T08:50:32","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T15:50:32","slug":"holly-holm-still-feels-like-bantamweight-is-home-as-ufc-225-featherweight-contender-fight-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/holly-holm\/holly-holm-still-feels-like-bantamweight-is-home-as-ufc-225-featherweight-contender-fight-approaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Holm still feels like bantamweight is &#8220;home&#8221; as UFC 225 featherweight contender fight approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday night, on the <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/curtis-blaydes\/curtis-blaydes-reacts-to-his-bout-with-alistair-overeem-being-bumped-off-the-ufc-225-main-card\/\">main card<\/a> of UFC 225,<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/miesha-tate\/former-ufc-bantamweight-champion-miesha-tate-is-now-a-mother\/\"> former UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion<\/a> Holly Holm will battle Megan Anderson in a fight that is likely to produce the next challenger for featherweight champ Cris Cyborg. While a win at UFC 225 could easily earn Holm another crack at Cyborg, who she lost a decision to in December, she still feels like the bantamweight division is her true home.<\/p>\n<p id=\"JcUyCC\">\u201cI definitely feel like 135 is a little more my home,\u201d Holm said Friday at a UFC 225 media lunch (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/6\/4\/17420962\/despite-contender-fight-with-megan-anderson-holly-holm-says-bantamweight-is-still-more-her-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMAFighting<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>For Holm, this featherweight bout with Anderson was simply too interesting an opportunity to pass up. That said, she would like to return to the bantamweight division for her next fight.<\/p>\n<p id=\"9wYS5v\">\u201cThis was the opportunity that presented itself and what seemed good for right now,\u201d Holm said of the Anderson matchup. \u201cI\u2019m just gonna take this fight and after that I would like to be able to go back to 135 and maybe fight for the belt. I know I\u2019m the No. 1 contender there. Why not try and go back to that? How awesome would that be to be able to get my belt back? That\u2019s what I want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Holm is interested in returning to the bantamweight division in the near future, she is interested in an eventual rematch with Cyborg.<\/p>\n<p id=\"tEkqnW\">\u201cIt was a really close fight,\u201d Holm said. \u201cI didn\u2019t just go to survive it. I went to beat her. That was my plan \u2014 not just say I did it. I\u2019ve said this before. I\u2019m not going in there to get a participation ribbon, [to] just say I did it. I did it because I want the gold and that\u2019s what I\u2019m going for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"q4y94q\">\u201cI\u2019d like to have another chance at it if the chance presents itself. It\u2019s hard right now. I definitely have this fight in front of me, but like I said, I\u2019d like to go back to fight for the belt at 135 as well. I don\u2019t know. We\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, Holly Holm seems to have plenty of interesting options ahead, no matter how her UFC 225 bout with Megan Anderson unfolds.<\/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\/4\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Saturday night, on the main card of UFC 225, former UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion Holly Holm will battle Megan Anderson in a fight that is likely to produce the next challenger for featherweight champ Cris Cyborg. 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