Ronda Rousey Taunts Holly Holm When Asked About Potential Rematch

11 years ago, Holly Holm shocked the world with one of the biggest upsets in MMA history when she knocked out then-UFC champion Ronda Rousey. Fresh off of her first MMA win since that fateful loss, Rousey has a strong message for the first woman to ever beat her.

Holm is back in professional boxing and has a fight this weekend against WBA lightweight champion Stephanie Han. She spoke to MMA Fighting ahead of the match and responded to Rousey's recent win over Gina Carano.

Holm said that while she'd always be happy to fight Rousey again, she doubts that Rousey would ever want to.

"I highly doubt she'll ever want a rematch," Holm told the outlet. "I always have said since the minute the last fight was over, I'll always rematch her. That's always been available. But she wanted to come back and have this win and go back and enjoy and have a win like that. No hate from me. I hope she does well. I hope she does whatever she wants with her life. That's her life. I'd always be open to fight her again."

Rousey didn't exactly appreciate Holm's remarks. Appearing on Up and Adams, Rousey declared that she would "clean her clock" if they fought again but stated that she's retired anyway.

"I said I'm retired, A and B, I think that I am a completely different fighter now. I would clean her clock and definitely now that I got that new medication," Rousey said. "I took it before. I was diagnosed with cortical spreading depression, which was always happening in my last fights and basically why I was like I need to stop. I thought my concussions were catching up to me.

"This is the first fight where I was able to take it and when I spiked my head into the mat, that's exactly the kind of thing that would have set me off before. I would have lost big chunks of my vision and it didn't come back at all. It ended up working perfectly in a live situation."

Holm vs. Rousey II?

MMA fans vividly remember Holm dismantling Rousey so badly that it left the brash UFC star unable to eat solid food for a while. Many took to social media and practically begged Rousey to fight Holm again just so they can relieve seeing Holm knock her out again.

"There is no world where Ronda is willing to re live the risk of another fight against Holly," former MMA champion Cris Cyborg wrote on X.

"Please, Dear God, please, let Holly Holm and Ronda Rousey fight again. I haven't gotten enough of Ronda being knocked stupid," wrote another.

"'I think I am a completely different fighter now and would clean her clock'....since she knocked you out, you got knocked out worse....took 10 years off....beat a woman in her mid 40s off of a 17 year layoff...but suddenly you will KO Holm? K," another said dismissively.

"Ronda is the worst loser in the history of women's sports."

"lol I'm telling you this girl just has zero clue. Pure delusion. If she said "if we fought again, I'd tap her out" that would at least make some sense. Holly would legitimately break her face (again) and it would be, yet again, so embarrassingly bad."

Holm's career didn't exactly take off like Rousey's did after that epic win at UFC 193. She dropped the title to Miesha Tate in her first defense, failed to capture a UFC belt in three more attempts and won just five more fights in before leaving UFC in 2025.

At 44 years of age, Holm seems happy to be back to boxing and is probably far closer to the end of her in-ring career than a prize fight with Rousey.

But if someone came to her with the right offer, perhaps we can finally see the rematch that's been 11 years in the making.

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This story was originally published May 28, 2026 at 12:29 PM.