Ronda Rousey has been dominating the women’s bantamweight division in the UFC since it’s creation but future contender Holly Holm feels the best thing is for Ronda to lose at next weeks UFC 184.
“I think it would benefit greatly,” Holm told MMAFighting.com in a recent interview. “I think when you see one person do well or kind of bring down the No. 1, then everybody thinks, well if she can do that, I can, too.”
“Ronda has run through everybody in the division,” Holm said. “So I think it’s kind of hard when people get in there and stare across the ring and think, Wow, can I really beat her? And you really have to believe you can or else you’re not going to be able to do it. She’s going to be hard to beat. There’s no bones about it. But you also can’t put her on a pedestal so high that you don’t believe you can do well also.”
Easier said than done though. Rousey is only getting better and is in her athletic prime. Holm knows that she will eventually have to stop her.
“I understand why it’s been on the fast track and I’m fine with it,” Holm said. “I like feeling a little bit of that. As much as I hate it, I like feeling a little bit of that pressure, because I feel like sometimes it makes me feel like I just need to rise to the occasion. Fighting is never easy, it’s never pretty, it’s never perfect. So I feel like if I would be so protective and just take these perfectly comfortable bay steps in a career, it’s like well am I realty challenging myself? Do I really believe in myself? I feel like if people are pushing me, then they believe in me and that gives me strength.”
Can’t wait to see if Holm has what it takes to finally push Rousey to her limits.
