"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.”