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One on One Interview with Holly Holm
Interviewed by
Katherine Dunn
April 8, 2008

      
   
   
   
   
(APR 8) We caught Holly “Hottie” Holm on her home phone in Albuquerque, N.M. one afternoon early in April. The 26 year-old Holm, (21-1-2, 6 KO’s) holds the women’s welterweight title for the WBC, WBA, WIBA and IFBA, was thinking about the June 13 pay per view show in which she is scheduled to encounter Mary Jo Sanders for the IFBA light middleweight tile. At this moment, however, she was holding a paint brush.

-----So, what are you painting? Your house or a picture?

HH---I’m remodeling my bathroom and the hallway. Actually my dad helps me a little bit but we did the tiling and everything. I did the whole tiling on the floor so we’ll see what happens. If it cracks we’ll know why.

---When we last spoke you had bought this house with your boxing earnings and were sharing it with your brother.

HH—He moved out. My boyfriend pretty much lives with me now.

---Have you started serious training for this June 13 show?

HH—I wouldn’t say serious training. We’re working on a lot of techniques. I run every day any way. I work out all the time, so much that I don’t want to pick it up too soon as far as my hundred percent full-blown training.

---So you work out every day but you’re not sparring?

HH---I’m not sparring. I run about five days a week and I do aerobics about three days a week. So it’s a full schedule. It’s probably what a lot of girls do anyway. But when I get to the last six weeks before a fight, five days a week I’m doing really intense full network with Mr. Winklejohn. Right now I’m only doing that about once a week but I’m working on a fight plan and techniques and stuff like that. 

---Have you seen Mary Jo Sanders fight?

HH—I have seen fight tapes. I think I only have two of them. I got them when I was training for Chevelle Hallback. I got a copy to train for Chevelle Hallback but it just happened to be a fight with Mary Jo. Actually she’s the one who gave the fight tape to me. I have a couple. I haven’t really sat down and studied them now that she’s the opponent ahead of me. But I have watched her and I will sit down and focus on them and focus on just her while I’m watching rather than the other opponent.

-------But you’re familiar with Mary Jo Sanders as a fighter. You’ve seen her fight before. So what do you think will be your challenges in meeting her.

HH—I think she’s really stronger than a lot of girls I’ve fought. She’s taller, but she’s still an inch shorter than me so I’m not too worried about that. She’s got footwork. She’s got a skilled traditional boxing style. She throws straight punches. She uses her jab, uses it to set up things. So in a lot of ways she’s just really well rounded. So we’re just going to train for that. We’re going to train for straight punches. Like if you look at her compared with Chevelle Hallback, Chevelle Hallback throws little loopers and crouches down real low. They’re a lot different. So you fight them differently. So you work on a game plan for a more straight, traditional fighter rather than like somebody who is a wild fighter.

----What is the contract weight for the fight?

HH---154.

---That’s pretty heavy for you. You’ve been fighting consistently at 140 or 145 pounds.

HH—Yeah. I’ve only fought one time at 154 and right now I’m walking around at 153. I won’t gain any more weight for the fight., because if I did it would not be good weight. I don’t want to be slow or sluggish. Being three pounds heavier but feeling sluggish is just not worth it.

-----But Mary Jo has been fighting pretty consistently recently at 160, so she’s coming down.

HH--- Yes. A lot of her fights have been at 147 so I don’t think it’s going to be a real hard cut for her. But I know she’s heavier than 154 right now. Otherwise we probably would have set the fight for 147. I think she wants to try and stay big and strong and use that to her advantage. Which is fine. I train with a lot of big male fighters and I’m used to them pushing me around. I’m used to their strength. So, I could be putting my foot in my mouth, but I’m really not worried about the weight part of it. I’m a strong fighter. I have a lot of strength in me and I don’t see that as one of the huge problems.

---What do you see as your advantages in meeting Mary Jo?

HH—She’s a more well-rounded fighter. I’ve never been in the ring with someone who has all of her skills. I’ve been in with maybe one that has footwork, one fighter that has power, maybe one fighter I’ve fought has speed. And she has all these things. But I also think the same for me. She’s never fought anybody like my style either. I don’t throw wild punches either, and she’s going to be training differently for me as well. I do have a lot of really good sparring partners who have a style like that. The sparring might be an advantage. I think I’ll be prepared to fight, I know that I have a lot of sparring partners and I know a lot of other training camps don’t have that. I’ve got tons. Every Tuesday and Thursday night we have about thirty-five people and you just rotate. You just grab a new person every round. I have a lot of sparring and I have a lot of people who can mimic her style for me. And that’s a benefit for me.

---What about the fact that you’re a Southpaw?

HH---She’s been around the game long enough and she’s undefeated, and she has fought Southpaws before. Any trick a Southpaw has for a righty, an orthodox fighter has for a Southpaw. It’s all the same game. Your angling is the same. You want to take each others’ back. I am the one usually fighting an orthodox fighter, so I’m more used to that. But guaranteed she’s going to find some lefty sparring partners so I think she’ll be prepared for it. I expect her to be very prepared for the fight and for anything I can throw at her, but that’s just why I’m going to train a hundred times harder than I have before.


----This is a big event, headlining on an all female pay per view show. Are you excited about that?

HH---Yeah, I’m excited if it’s successful. If a lot of people buy it then I’m excited. I want to fight no matter what. I guess as far as the promotion goes I want everybody to be successful. I want my promoter to be happy when it’s over, and I want pay per view to be happy to where they’ll ask us back. So I want it to be successful. But right now I’m more focused on the fight, because once you get in the ring and you have that opponent in front of you, it doesn’t matter what cameras are there or what crowd is there, you still have to fight that person no matter what. That’s what I’m focused on. If it is a success I’ll be really happy. I just hope it’s not something that isn’t successful.

---I‘ve heard that you’ve actually had some experience with mixed martial arts. Is that true?

HH---Yes. That’s all I did before I turned to pro boxing. That’s all I did was kick boxing as an amateur. And I actually had some professional kick boxing fights.

----But it didn’t involve grappling?

HH---- No, I train at a gym that has a lot of MMA fighters, but I don’t get involved in the grappling part or the submission part.
We used to have our own gym and it was just a kick boxing, boxing and karate gym. And he did some grappling classes.

----This was with Mr. Winklejohn?

---Yes. It was called Winklejohn’s Kick Boxing. Then Greg Jackson had his fighters. My boyfriend, Joey Villasenor, just fought on Showtime on the 29th of March. It’s like the UFC only it’s a different organization called Pro Elite. He does the whole MMA style, the grappling, submission, kick boxing, boxing. He does the whole mixed martial arts fighting. I have team mates who are competitive and successful in the UFC, like Keith Jardin and Rashad Evans. And George St. Pierre comes and cross trains at our gym. And all those guys were at Greg Jackson’s gym, and just over a year ago we combined gyms. We basically always saw each other as team mates. Greg Jackson had his gym, Winklejohn had our gym. And all the guys from Jackson’s would come up on Tuesday and Thursday nights and spar and work on their standing fighting with Mr. Winklejohn, cause he was their up fighting coach. They decided to go ahead and combine gyms, so we’ve been in the same gym for about a year, but we’ve been team mates longer than that, but now we’re all in the same gym.

----Well Holly, thank you for taking the time to talk today, and I wish you the best of luck.

HH—Thank you. Bye-bye.
 
     
     
   
         
 
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