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Holly Holm on Amanda Nunes’ list of accomplishments: She hasn’t beaten me

LOS ANGELES – Amanda Nunes believes she’s the greatest women’s fighter of all-time, and with victories over Cris Cyborg, Miesha Tate, Ronda Rousey, and two over Valentina Shevchenko, among others, she’s got a pretty convincing case.

But there’s one big name missing from that list: Holly Holm, the competitor who won world boxing titles in three weight classes, then came over to MMA and destroyed the myth of Rousey’s invincibility to win the UFC bantamweight belt Nunes now holds.

Someone who has won world titles in two sports has a special appreciation for what it took for Nunes to win both the UFC featherweight and bantamweight belts.

So while Holm isn’t going to discount what Nunes has accomplished, she also has a message before the two tangle for the 135-pound belt at UFC 239 on July 6: You still haven’t beaten me.

“In order to have two belts in two different divisions, you have to be a special something,” Holm told MMA Junkie at Monday’s UFC 239 media day in downtown LA. “But she hasn’t faced Holly and that’s the bottom line.

“This is a whole different fight,” Holm continued. “Is she great? Yes. Am I up against a great fighter? Yeah. It wouldn’t be a big expectant title fight, she wouldn’t be where she’s at if she hadn’t done great things, so yes, it’s a very big fight but I’m ready for it I’ve been training my butt off and that’s what I’m doing. I’m working for a win.”

One thing Holm won’t do is get into playing an MMA math game.

Yes, Holm (12-4 MMA, 5-4 UFC) went five rounds with Cyborg and lost a decision, while Nunes (17-4 MMA, 10-1 UFC) knocked Cyborg out. But Nunes also went the distance twice with Valentina Shevchenko, the current flyweight titleholder. That Nunes could knock out the featherweight champ and have fits against a fighter who later went down in weight class tells Holm you have to take every fight as it’s own puzzle.

“When you go out for a slugfest, anybody who lands that is going to go down,” Holm said. “Every fight makes a difference, the Cyborg and my fight is different than the fight between Amanda and Cyborg. You can look at things in a lot of different ways. You can look at something like Shevchenko and Nunes where Shevchenko gave her a hard time where she was so technical.

“And then you look at someone like Cyborg, Shevchenko is a champ at 125 and Cyborg is champ at 145 and (Nunes and Shevchenko) fought at 135,” Holm continued. “And you know Amanda is knocking out the bigger one and having a hard time with the lighter one. So you can’t ever look at a fight and be like oh, she did this in that fight so she’s going to do that to me. Every fighter has a different style and nobody is the same. I’m not Cyborg, I’m not Shevchenko, I’m Holly Holm.”

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