{"id":223008,"date":"2025-06-29T03:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T03:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223008\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T03:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T03:51:09","slug":"paul-vs-chavez-jr-results-holly-holm-shuts-out-yolanda-vega-for-first-boxing-win-in-12-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223008\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul vs. Chavez Jr. results: Holly Holm shuts out Yolanda Vega for first boxing win in 12 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former UFC bantamweight champion Holly Holm<\/a> put on a vintage performance in her return to boxing Saturday night to dominate previously unbeaten Yolanda Vega for a clear unanimous decision on the undercard of Paul vs. Chavez Jr. in Anaheim, Calif.<\/p>\n

Holm was entering the squared circle for the first time since May 2013, when she defended the IBA and WBF super lightweight belts against Mary McGee in Albuquerque to switch her focus full-time to MMA, and appeared to never miss the beat.<\/p>\n

Holm, now 34-2-3 in boxing, was just too fast and precise for Vega, who showed heart but no answer to Holm\u2019s jabs and heavy left straights. Holm was comfortable being the counter striker in the ring, making Vega pay for every attack attempt throughout 10 two-minute rounds.<\/p>\n

In the end, Holm was declared the winner with a 100-90 score for all three judges.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really loved MMA for a while but then I started feeling this growing pain of wanting to box again,\u201d Holm said after the win. \u201cIt\u2019s been fun to get back and just kind of get that boxing going again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holm left the UFC months after losing to now champion Kayla Harrison<\/a> in April 2024, and has now won a fight for the first time since a UFC main event decision over Irene Aldana<\/a> in October 2020.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to finish early but also I didn\u2019t mind feeling 10 rounds because I do wanna fight for a title and I know the other girls are going to keep getting tougher,\u201d Holm said. \u201cIt was a great fight tonight, she\u2019s undefeated fighter so I was glad to be up against somebody that\u2019s tough and put my skills to the test and see how it feels again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC bantamweight champion Holly Holm put on a vintage performance in her return to boxing Saturday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[9200,1935,4496,30776,10516,4923,3576,163,47203,47204,256,21368,1501,5705,19335,16374,14236,88017,79,16,15,88019,6691,9356,88020,42402,88018],"class_list":{"0":"post-223008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-all-womens-sports","9":"tag-boxing","10":"tag-boxing-news","11":"tag-chavez","12":"tag-fighting","13":"tag-first","14":"tag-for","15":"tag-front-page","16":"tag-holly","17":"tag-holm","18":"tag-in","19":"tag-jr","20":"tag-latest-news","21":"tag-mma","22":"tag-out","23":"tag-paul","24":"tag-results","25":"tag-shuts","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom","29":"tag-vega","30":"tag-vs","31":"tag-win","32":"tag-womens-combat","33":"tag-years","34":"tag-yolanda"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114764623560028364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}