Holly Holm wishes she would have ‘gone a little harder’ against Miesha Tate

LOS ANGELES — Holly Holm was in attendance at T-Mobile Arena for UFC 200. She saw from cageside the first-round barrage Amanda Nunes laid on Miesha Tate. Nunes smashed Tate early and often with punches, eventually finishing with a rear-naked choke after dropping the champion to win the UFC women’s bantamweight title.

Just four months earlier, Tate was choking Holm to win that same belt. After watching Nunes pour it on against Tate in Las Vegas, Holm somewhat second-guessed her conservative strategy in that fight.

“I wish I would have gone a little harder,” Holm said at a media lunch this week. “Because I know I’m capable of more than I showed in the fight. But a lot of times you can do something and get into a bad situation even sooner. Who knows?”

Holm was winning on the cards heading into the fifth round. Tate managed to get her down to the ground and took her back in that final frame, cinching in a choke. It was a dramatic finish. And Holm is not necessarily sure a guns-blazing approach would have worked against Tate, either, given Tate’s guile and craftiness.

“If you look at …

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