Holly Holm

Former women's bantamweight champion Miesha Tate has reacted to Holly Holm's controversial split decision loss to Ketlen Viera.

Having achieved such success in MMA, there is a chance that Holm now returns to her roots. Now at the age of 40, it may be that Holm does not get the chance to fight for the UFC title again after this loss. ‘Cupcake’ stated that her fellow former champ utilized the wrong gameplan against Viera, in a similar manner to how Tate herself lost to the Brazilian contender.

Holly Holm suffered a controversial loss at the hands of Ketlen Vieira on Saturday night.Holm, 40, headlined the UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas opposite.

Her best moment came when she nearly submitted Holm in the second round with a standing rear-naked choke. The former bantamweight champion was left baffled that Vieira had been awarded three rounds. Surely a UFC ranking awaits.

Judges favour Ketlen Vieira as she wins split-decision verdict despite a strong performance from Holly Holm at UFC Fight Night 206 in Las Vegas; ...

Holm also scored a knockdown with a sidekick in the fourth round. "So, I'm disappointed. Brazilian Ketlen Vieira stunned former champion Holly Holm in a controversial split decision in their women's bantamweight bout in the main event of UFC Fight Night 206 in Las Vegas on Saturday night.

UFC Vegas 55 went down last night (Sat., May 21, 2022) from inside UFC Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada featuring a women's Bantamweight fight that saw Ketlen ...

Once considered a legit contender to one day fight for the title, Ponzinibbio is currently on the worst slump of his career, losing two straight and three of four overall. In doing so, “Demolidor” improved his win streak to five straight, the longest of his MMA career since 2013-2014. Pereira picked up one of the biggest wins of his career by doing enough to escape with a split-decision win over Ponzinibbio, who is currently ranked No. 14 in the 170-pound division.

The controversial split decision win for Ketlen Vieira against Holly Holm at UFC Vegas 55 met with some supporters after a huge backlash.

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Holly Holm was not happy with the judges at UFC Vegas 55 after she lost a close split decision to Ketlen Vieira in the main event.

“It’s a loss now,” she said. But I still wanted to be more damaging in those areas. “I wanted to be more damaging there,” Holm explained. Holm took responsibility for the lack of damage she was able to dish out from the clinch, which is where she arguably had her best moments during the 25-minute battle. I don’t really give her three rounds. “I really don’t give her three rounds.

Former UFC Champion Holly Holm is eyeing a Dublin date with undisputed world champion Katie Taylor after her controversial loss at UFC Fight Night 206.

I think I’m bigger and stronger than a lot of the 135ers." I never even fought at that weight class when I was in boxing. “There’s three fights.

It's been a while since we've had a controversially scored main event, so I suppose we were due for one at UFC Vegas 55. Ketlen Vieira took a razor thin ...

Elise Reed: There was a lot to like about Reed when she entered the UFC. However, in her two losses, she’s been overwhelmed physically in both of her UFC losses. Take what you will of what I mean by that given it was Hooper’s third UFC win, but it didn’t look like he was sneaking out of the event with a submission out of nowhere for the win. Now that he’s dropped three of his last four at the age of 36, it’s hard to see his next fight happening in the UFC. The pint-sized strawweight did get the win, but she struggled with the length of Viana, barely edging out the win. At 28, it isn’t too late for Todorovic to turn things around, but I get the feeling he’ll need to do that outside the organization. I still don’t have a solid feel for Hughes’ ceiling, but she looks like she’s going to be around a while after a rough start to her UFC career. I still don’t buy the UFC narrative that he’s a future star, but he finally looks like he doesn’t have to be hand fed opponents to pick up a win. Vieira was awarded the decision by the judges, leaving her very likely to get a title shot in the near future. The native of Serbia fought a patient fight, flicking out all sorts of volume as he picked apart a veteran Omar Morales before hurting him in the second. Vieira did land the harder strikes, producing the more memorable moments in the fight, but most feel like there wasn’t enough between the spaces for her to get the job done. Neither man backed down and Pereira earned the nod in the eyes of the judges. She spent long periods of time in control against the cage and had a sizeable advantage in terms of pure volume.

Despite putting on a good performance in Las Vegas, Holly Holm lost out in a split decision to Brazilian star Ketlen Vieira.

Pereira raced forward, piling the pressure on Ponzinibbio from the opening round. Remarkably, Holm managed to escape the submission, and avoided further attempts from Vieira. Holm herself admitted that Vieira deserved to win the second round, after the Brazilian came close to submitting her with a standing rear-naked choke.

Holly Holm most certainly thought she did enough to win the UFC Fight Night 206 headliner, but the judges saw it differently.

“I wanted to obviously be more active in the clinch. “I thought I won the fight,” Holm told Daniel Cormier in her post-fight interview. “I think more we were worried about her trips and stuff, and I was able to kind of shut them down,” Holm said.

Ketlen Vieira won a split decision over Holly Holm in the UFC Vegas 55 main event Saturday and she explains what the judges were seeing.

“I felt pretty good about that and I thought that she actually was doing a light tap,” Vieira said. Vieira had the hold in tight and Holm’s face turned a shade of pink before she was able to escape the dangerous predicament. She was just pressing me against the cage but nothing was happening, she just wanted me to stop fighting and I think that the judges actually saw that.”

Thoughts and analysis of the biggest storylines coming out of UFC Fight Night 206, which took place Saturday in Las Vegas.

There are still flashes of the entertainer we’ve come to love at moments in each of his fights, but overall, Pereira has tightened up a lot of the flaws in his game, and the results speak for themselves. Given the lack of demand to see her fight for UFC gold, though, she’s in a risky position. The change in narrative Pereira (28-11 MMA, 6-2 UFC) has forced upon his career is compelling, to say the least. There’s a missing link somewhere, and the traffic numbers we see for Vieira’s fight-related content prove that to be a fact. There have of course been decisions where the losing fighter has the right for a bigger gripe than Holm, but in this instance, it’s not hard to understand why Holm thinks she won. This sport has exploded in popularity, exposure and significance of the past decade, and trotting out a tagline that UFC president Dana White used back on Season 1 of “The Ultimate Fighter” in 2005 feels silly at this point.