{"id":300240,"date":"2019-01-31T18:31:38","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T02:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=300240"},"modified":"2019-01-31T18:31:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T02:31:39","slug":"holly-holm-vs-aspen-ladd-off-of-ufc-235","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/holly-holm-vs-aspen-ladd-off-of-ufc-235\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Holm vs Aspen Ladd off of UFC 235"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Thursday, the UFC held their first pre-fight press conference for the big UFC 235 card that will go down on March 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As fun as it was, we got some surprising news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"UFC 235 pre-fight press conference (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fknc3m3gmGY\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 235 pre-fight press conference<\/a> when asked about why the bantamweight bout between rising contender Aspen Ladd (7-0) and former champion Holly Holm (12-4) wasn&#8217;t featured on the panel, UFC President Dana White revealed that the bout was now off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>White said that each fighter will have new opponents for different events. No reasons as to why were given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Holm, this was to be her first fight at bantamweight since her win over Bethe Correia in July 2017. Since then she has gone 1-1 with both of those fights coming at featherweight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ladd, on the other hand, recently dominated her toughest test to date in former Invicta FC champion Tonya Evinger who she defeated via first-round TKO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On top of this news, it&#8217;s also news to Ladd herself reports Mike Heck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I reached out to Aspen Ladd\u2019s team about what Dana White just said: \u201cNews to me, seriously.\u201d<\/p>&mdash; Mike Heck (@MikeHeck_JR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeHeck_JR\/status\/1091157076418662400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 1, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I reached out to Aspen Ladd\u2019s team about what Dana White just said: &#8216;News to me, seriously.'&#8221; Heck&#8217;s tweet read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of right now, we can only speculate what the next fights will be for each but it wouldn&#8217;t be crazy to imagine Holm getting another title shot at 135-pounds as both she and the champion Amanda Nunes <g class=\"gr_ gr_19 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"19\" data-gr-id=\"19\">have<\/g> expressed interest in fighting one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this hit to UFC 235, it remains a very stacked card as the lineup can be seen below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong>Light Heavyweight &#8211; 205lbs: (C)Jon Jones vs. Anthony Smith<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Welterweight &#8211; 170lbs: (C)Tyron Woodley vs. Kamaru Usman<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Welterweight: Robbie Lawler vs. Ben Askren<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Bantamweight &#8211; 135lbs: Cody Garbrandt vs. Pedro Munhoz<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Featherweight &#8211; 145lbs: Jeremy Stephens vs. Zabit Magomedsharipov<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Light Heavyweight: Ovince Saint Preux vs. Misha Cirkunov<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Bantamweight: Alejandro P\u00e9rez vs. Yadong Song    <\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Strawweight &#8211; 115lbs: Tecia Torres vs. Weili Zhang<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Bantamweight: Thomas Almeida vs. Marlon Vera<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Welterweight: Diego Sanchez vs. Mickey Gall<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Middleweight &#8211; 185lbs: Edmen Shahbazyan vs. Charles Byrd<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Bantamweight: Gina Mazany vs. Macy Chiasson<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Strawweight: Polyana Viana vs. Hannah Cifers<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\"><em>BJPenn.com<\/em><\/a><em> on 1\/31\/2019<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, the UFC held their first pre-fight press conference for the big UFC 235 card that will go down on March 2 in Las Vegas, Nevada. 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