If you’re Holly Holm, a rematch with Ronda Rousey sounds like a string orchestra swelling to life with every warm memory of Melbourne. If you’re Rousey? It’s the sound of emptiness and vacancy — just a chain clinking against the flagpole on a cold winter day.
It’s understandable that Holm would be open for an immediate rematch, even if she’s too classy to insist on it. The first fight wasn’t close. It’s been well over a week and Holm is still doing her victory lap after UFC 193, carrying the shiny symbol of her Astonishing Feat onto television sets that not so long ago didn’t exist for her.