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(WATCH) UFC Superstar Holly Holm Uses Her Platform to Call Out Sexualization of Children


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UFC superstar Holly Holm won her fight against Yana Santos by unanimous decision in the co-main event of UFC fight night Saturday.

The former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion scored her first victory since October 2020.

However, Holm’s comments during her post-fight interview have gone viral on social media.

Holm used her platform to call out the sexualization of children.

“Something that’s been on my heart, and I feel like I have the platform to say it. I need to say it. I just feel it’s really sad, all the sexualization of our children right now and we need to protect them. Whatever that may be, let’s protect the children,” Holm said.

WATCH:

Twitter users applauded her message:

https://twitter.com/angelmcdowell_/status/1639811413177671680

Amen to Holly Holm’s message!

Protect the children at all costs!!!

ESPN reported on Holm’s victory Saturday night:

Even at 41 years old, Holly Holm feels she still has work to do. We learned that was the case contractually earlier in the week when she re-signed with the UFC for six fights. But we learned on Saturday that Holm’s staying power is genuine.

She dominated Yana Santos for all three rounds, and did so in a new way. Best known for her boxing prowess — she was a 2022 inductee into the International Boxing Hall of Fame — Holm scored four takedowns, her most ever in a three-round fight. She controlled her former training partner on the canvas and, before settling for a lopsided unanimous decision (30-26, 30-27, 30-27), threatened to finish with what would have been the first submission win in her 21-fight career.

Holm, a former UFC bantamweight champion, said after the fight that she’s sticking around to compete for a title. To do that, she will have to remain healthy and active. In recent times, she’s competed about once a year. At that pace, her new contract would take her to age 46.



 

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