Holly Holm is set to fight for another boxing world championship.<\/p>\n
Most Valuable Promotions announced on Wednesday that the former UFC women\u2019s bantamweight champion is set to challenge Stephanie Han for the WBA lightweight title in the co-main event of the Jan. 3 card headlined by Amanda Serrano vs. Erika Cruz.<\/p>\n
The bout will be contested under men\u2019s boxing rules with 10, three-minute rounds.<\/p>\n
\u201cHolly Holm is back challenging for a boxing world title, 12 years after leaving the sport and doing it with MVP,\u201d MVP co-founders Jake Paul and Nakisa Badarian said in a joint statement. \u201cShe is facing a multi-faceted athlete in Stephanie Han who is a champion, a mother, and a police officer. And they are doing it with 3-minute rounds like the men. Joining them are an array of Puerto Rican standouts, including MVP\u2019s own Yankiel Rivera, Jan Paul Rivera, and Krystal Rosado, representing the island\u2019s next generation of greatness and demonstrating MVP\u2019s commitment to pushing the sport forward through equality, opportunity, and world-class fights for fans around the globe, live only on DAZN.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before transitioning to MMA full time, Holm was a multiple-time world champion boxer, successfully defending her titles in three divisions a total of 18 times. \u201cThe Preacher\u2019s Daughter\u201d was a two-time Ring Magazine fighter of the year, and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2022. After 12 years away from the boxing ring, Holm returned to pick up a lopsided decision win over Yolanda Vega in June at the Jake Paul vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. event in June.<\/p>\n
Han has won all 11 of her pro boxing bouts, including capturing the WBA lightweight title with first-round knockout of Hannah Terlep in February, before defeating Paulina Angel in August via unanimous decision for her first successful title defense.<\/p>\n
The event takes place at Coliseo Roberto Clemente in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and streams on DAZN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Holly Holm is set to fight for another boxing world championship. Most Valuable Promotions announced on Wednesday that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[703,711,49,48,641,701,638,82,640,702],"class_list":{"0":"post-263823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-news","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-ufc","17":"tag-ufc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}