UFC Champion Holly Holm on defeating Ronda Rousey

Carol Holm (born October 17, 1981) is definitely an American mixed martial artist who competes within the Ufc (UFC) bantamweight division. She’s the present UFC Bantamweight Champion. Holm is another former professional boxer and kickboxer. She would be a multiple-time world champion in boxing, protecting her game titles 18 occasions in three weight classes, and it was a 2-time Ring magazine fighter of the season (2005, 2006).

Her noticably win in mma (MMA) happened at UFC 193, before an archive-breaking crowd for any UFC event (56,214 people) in Melbourne, when she taken the bantamweight title and gave Ronda Rousey her first reduction in the game. The battle is one among the greatest upsets within the good reputation for sports.

Holm may be the first person to win titles both in boxing and mma. She’s the consensus #1 female bantamweight fighter on the planet. Fight Matrix also lists her because the #1 pound-for-pound female fighter on the planet, while Sherdog lists her at #2, and ESPN at #3. Holm may be the only female fighter to become indexed by Sports Illustrated’s mixed gender pound-for-pound ranking at #10.UFC fighter Jon Johnson has known as Holm the finest female athlete within the good reputation for combat sports. Outdoors of MMA, she seems within the 2016 feature film Fight Valley.