Hey, didn't she used to be Holly Holm?
That may have been a knee-jerk reaction when fans saw the scheduled main event for Saturday's Fight Night show at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, and it was indeed the former bantamweight champion making her first octagonal appearance in 19 months against fifth-ranked contender Ketlen Vieira.
Now 40 years old, Holm hadn't appeared since beating Raquel Pennington and Irene Aldana across 10 months in 2020. Those wins followed a stretch of five losses in seven fights since her paradigm-shifting finish of then-champ Ronda Rousey at UFC 193 way back in November 2015.