Holly Holm Inks New UFC Contract
Holly Holm has signed a new contract with the UFC that will see her fight several more times inside of the Octagon.
She signed a new six-fight contract with the Las Vegas-based promotion. The news was first broke by ESPN and later confirmed by Holm’s manager Lenny Fresquez to MMA Fighting’s Marc Raimondi.
The former UFC women’s bantamweight champion previously had two fights remaining on her previous deal with the UFC.
Holm is 2-3 in her last five bouts and is fresh off a win over Megan Anderson by unanimous decision at the UFC 235 PPV event. Prior to this fight, she suffered a decision loss to then-UFC women’s featherweight champion Cyborg at UFC 219. Holm scored a win over Bethe Correia by third-round TKO in June 2017. She’s 5-4 in the UFC and 12-4 overall in MMA.
She was supposed to fight Aspen Ladd at the UFC 235 pay-per-view event on March 2nd, but that fight got scrapped. Moving along, there was a report by Combate that the UFC was trying to book Holm against UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes at the upcoming UFC 237 pay-per-view event on Saturday, May 11, 2019, at Arena da Baixada in Curitiba, Brazil.
However, the fight also never became a reality. Now, Holm is awaiting on the UFC getting her next fight booked. She’ll move forward with a new contract in tow when she does.
