{"id":193854,"date":"2026-03-06T21:47:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/193854\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T21:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:47:19","slug":"stephanie-han-to-defend-wba-lightweight-title-vs-holly-holm-in-el-paso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/193854\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephanie Han to defend WBA lightweight title vs. Holly Holm in El Paso"},"content":{"rendered":"

El Paso’s Stephanie Han <\/a>will defend her World Boxing Association lightweight title vs. former world champion Holly Holm, this time in El Paso.<\/p>\n

The May 30 fight will take place at the El Paso County Coliseum and will be nationally televised on ESPN.<\/p>\n

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Han defeated Holm, who is from Albuquerque, on Jan. 3 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, by technical decision after the fight was stopped in the seventh round after an accidental head butt caused a cut on Han’s forehead.<\/p>\n

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Stephanie Holm vs. Holly Holm 2 is set for May 30 in El Paso<\/p>\n

Han, who was in control of the fight at the time of the stoppage, won by scores of 69-65,\u00a069-64,\u00a068-65.<\/p>\n

The rematch with Holm was announced as part of a rollout of MVPW, a women-focused addition to Jake Paul’s Most Valuable Promotions. Han-Holm 2 will be MVPW-3.<\/p>\n

After that ending Han is ready for a more conclusive ending in the rematch, but she’s most excited to be fighting in her hometown.<\/p>\n

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El Paso’s Stephanie Han lands a jab vs. Holly Holm during their WBA lightweight title fight on Jan. 3, 2026 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Han won by decision to improve to 12-0.<\/p>\n

“To have this fight in my city of El Paso, it’s a dream come true and I’m so excited because I know Texas, New Mexico and Mexico are going come out to support this fight,” Han said at a news conference to introduce a slate of MVPW fights.<\/p>\n

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“I am so excited for this rematch. Yes, the (first) fight had controversy. (Holm) said she could have caught up at the end and I want to have this next fight, no excuses. And most importantly, I’m having this rematch in my city of El Paso.<\/p>\n

“My city embraces me as a champion and I’m so excited to bring this fight home.”<\/p>\n

Holm also is eager to fight Han again.<\/p>\n

“I’m excited for the rematch,” Holm said. “I think a lot of people are (because of) how the fight kind of ended. So show up and do the best I can.”<\/p>\n

Han is 12-0 with three knockouts,\u00a0Holm is 34-3-3 with nine knockouts.<\/a><\/p>\n

Han will make her third defense <\/a>of her WBA title, which she won by defeating Hannah Terlep by first-round knockout in El Paso. Her first defense was a 10-round decision win against Paulina Angel in Florida.<\/p>\n

Felix F. Chavez can be reached at fchavez@elpasotimes;com; @Fchavezeptimes on X<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on El Paso Times: Stephanie Han vs. Holly Holm WBA title rematch set in El Paso, Texas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Paso’s Stephanie Han will defend her World Boxing Association lightweight title vs. former world champion Holly Holm,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[57069,138,9224,140,139,49368,49369],"class_list":{"0":"post-193854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el","9":"tag-el-paso","10":"tag-el-paso-county-coliseum","11":"tag-el-paso-headlines","12":"tag-el-paso-news","13":"tag-holly-holm","14":"tag-stephanie-han"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}