Filed under: Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos MELBOURNE, Australia — If Ronda Rousey is the queen of mean, with the kind of bristling attitude befitting MMA’s most lauded inflictor of pain, what then, is her latest opponent, Holly Holm ? “She is a sweet girl,” said Rousey, giving up on her routine of verbally assaulting impending foes due to, in this case, a severe lack of ammunition. “She’s nice.” If simmering antipathy is one of the UFC’s most common sources of motivational fuel, Holm gives you nothing to work with. The former boxing world champion, 35, is an immensely likable woman that has somehow landed in the middle of the boisterous world of MMA’s premier organization. Holm (9-0 MMA, 2-0 UFC) will take on Rousey (12-0 MMA, 6-0 UFC) at Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium in the pay-per-view main event of UFC 193 on Saturday. She is known as “The Preacher’s Daughter” because that is exactly what she is; her dad, Roger, is a practicing minister
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Who is Ronda Rousey’s UFC 193 challenger, Holly Holm? ‘She is a sweet girl’ – MMA Junkie