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HOLM LOOKS ON
BEATING SECOND LEGEND IN BATTLE OF KNOCKOUTS
By Andy Rivera -
newmexicosportsnews.com
Photo's Javier Zamora
(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.
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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." |
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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. |
