Holm: I'm not going to live in the past

Featherweight UFC contender Holly Holm shared her expectations from the upcoming meeting with champion Cris Justino, scheduled for December 30 in Las Vegas.

"I can’t be living in 2015. This is a new fight, this is a new opponent and a totally different style and a totally different challenge. A lot of people, how they look at the fight, how they view the fight; those are some similar emotions and similar things. But this is its own fight," Holm said in an interview to MMAjunkie.

“I figured this fight would happen. I didn’t know when,” Holm said. “Even before I signed with the UFC, back when she was fighting with Strikeforce I figured, ‘Oh, I kind of want to get into MMA, I wonder if I will fight her?’ Those are things I figured might always be a possibility to happen if we both were still around after evolving with my career a little bit. I figured it would happen, especially after she started fighting a little bit with a couple fights at catchweight with the UFC.”