{"id":714386,"date":"2026-06-04T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/714386\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:30:08","slug":"holly-holm-fires-back-after-ronda-rouseys-trash-talk-she-doesnt-want-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/714386\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Holm fires back after Ronda Rousey\u2019s trash talk: \u2018She doesn\u2019t want it!\u2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

All these years later, Rousey is back in the limelight after her win over Gina Carano (highlights here)<\/a> at the inaugural MVP MMA event live on Netflix. Though Rousey intends to return to retirement after that showcase win, she didn\u2019t miss the opportunity to fire shots at Holm and insist she would \u201cclean her clock\u201d<\/a> if they did throw down.<\/p>\n

Holm has since fired back, reminding Rousey that she has never wanted any part of a rematch.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can say one thing, and actions are another,\u201d Holm told Ariel Helwani<\/a> (via Curtis Calhoun<\/a>). \u201cShe\u2019s always going to be more of that type of person, and the thing is, I\u2019ve always said that I would rematch her. That\u2019s the bottom line. She doesn\u2019t want it! She\u2019s never wanted it, and that\u2019s alright. I\u2019m not mad at her for it. I don\u2019t want someone to get in there and fight if they don\u2019t actually want to fight, because I want someone who wants it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rematch has never been because I said \u2018No\u2019. I have respect for her, and she was a dominant champion; she\u2019s good at what she does,\u201d Holm continued. \u201cShe just has holes in [striking], but she\u2019s very good at her skill set.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holm hasn\u2019t competed in the cage since an August 2024 loss to Kayla Harrison, the current Bantamweight champion of the world. Since leaving the UFC, she\u2019s returned to the boxing ring, recently losing a very controversial decision<\/a> to Stephanie Han.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All these years later, Rousey is back in the limelight after her win over Gina Carano (highlights here)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-714386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}