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Holly Holm reflects on her loss: 'I just have to believe in myself more'

Holly Holm doesn't have any excuses for her loss to Valentina Shevchenko at UFC on FOX 20 on Saturday night.

Just a vow to get back to the drawing board.

"I have to get back in there and go forward," the former UFC women's bantamweight champion said during Saturday night's post-fight press conference at United Center. I know I'm capable of more. I just have to believe in myself more. I know I can do more than the way I performed tonight."

Few would have predicted just eight months ago, when Holm knocked out Ronda Rousey at UFC 193, that come next summer, Holm would lose back-to-back fights, particularly to Shevchenko, who didn't even make her UFC debut until last December.