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(DEC 6) This
coming Thursday night Albuquerque, New Mexico's Holly Holm will step
into the ring against Mia St. John, it will be Holm's second fight
against on of the pioneers of women's boxing, this past September Holm
shocked the boxing world by upsetting Christy Martin, in a an almost
shutout unanimous decision. Many felt Holm was way in over her head, but
her Promoter Lenny Fresquez felt it was time for Holm to step it up and
advance her career.
In fighting St. John, Holm will
have a fighter with a different style unlike the brawling Martin
in front of her; St. John is most known for boxing more the
getting in there in mixing it up. When fighting Martin, Holm's
trainer Mike Winkerljohn devised a game plan by having Holm
watch tapes on Muhammad Ali vs George Foreman, where she
would see how the master would box a slugger, the plan worked and Holm
hardly got touched by Martin. "I didn't have any tricks up my sleeve
this time where I can't come up with something like that but we watched
a lot of tapes on Mia and I think Holly will show all her skills in this
fight." says Winkeljohn "Holly can switch from brawling to boxing in an
instant."
Since winning in September Holm has become a hot commodity in
Albuquerque, her face on at least 10 billboards around the city, media
interviewing her every chance they get, this week the fight was to be a
day before Albuquerque's most popular fight Johnny Tapia, but as of
Tuesday the Holm/St. John fight is 50 tickets away from a sellout where
the Tapia fight is still uncertain to come off, she's that hot.
Holm looks for a different fight with St. John, "I expect her to box, I
like to box too, but I will press the action when I have to." says Holm
"I have been training hard and I'm ready to have a good fight."
If successful against St.
John, Holm says beating her second huge name in women's boxing she hopes
it will help her outside of boxing as well, like St. John did with her
attractive looks. Holm is one piece of eye candy also, but don't look
for Holm to be in a centerfold like her counter part did early in her
career. "With all that goes on with boxing an things, the craziest
question
I always get is, When are
you going to pose in Playboy?" say's Holm "I know I won't box forever,
but people like Mia have helped women's boxing branch out into the
business mainstream, so I hope I can do that too."
The fight which is at Isleta
Casino has sold out quicker then any fight in recent history with
Albuquerque being a notorious walk up crowd, there seems to be a buzz
about this fight, Fresquez Productions has seen something in Holm that
he has not seen in any other fighters, men or women. "Holly has
progressed faster then anyone I have ever worked with, including the
men, she has came to a level in such a short time that it has been a
pleasure working with her and we look for bigger things for her in the
future."
Holm vs St. John will headline the card that will also feature the
vacant NABA 115 title fight between El Paso's Caesar Lopez and Gabriel
Elizondo of Texas, in what should be a war.
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