Holly Holm is about to combat for an additional boxing world championship.
Most Helpful Promotions introduced on Wednesday that the previous UFC girls’s bantamweight champion is about to problem Stephanie Han for the WBA light-weight title within the co-main occasion of the Jan. 3 card headlined by Amanda Serrano vs. Erika Cruz.
The bout will probably be contested beneath males’s boxing guidelines with 10, three-minute rounds.
“Holly Holm is again difficult for a boxing world title, 12 years after leaving the game and doing it with MVP,” MVP co-founders Jake Paul and Nakisa Badarian stated in a joint assertion. “She is dealing with a multi-faceted athlete in Stephanie Han who’s a champion, a mom, and a police officer. And they’re doing it with 3-minute rounds like the lads. Becoming a member of them are an array of Puerto Rican standouts, together with MVP’s personal Yankiel Rivera, Jan Paul Rivera, and Krystal Rosado, representing the island’s subsequent era of greatness and demonstrating MVP’s dedication to pushing the game ahead via equality, alternative, and world-class fights for followers across the globe, dwell solely on DAZN.”
Earlier than transitioning to MMA full time, Holm was a multiple-time world champion boxer, efficiently defending her titles in three divisions a complete of 18 occasions. “The Preacher’s Daughter” was a two-time Ring Journal fighter of the 12 months, and was inducted into the Worldwide Boxing Corridor of Fame in 2022. After 12 years away from the boxing ring, Holm returned to choose up a lopsided determination win over Yolanda Vega in June on the Jake Paul vs. Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. occasion in June.
Han has gained all 11 of her professional boxing bouts, together with capturing the WBA light-weight title with first-round knockout of Hannah Terlep in February, earlier than defeating Paulina Angel in August by way of unanimous determination for her first profitable title protection.
The occasion takes place at Coliseo Roberto Clemente in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and streams on DAZN.
