Filed under: News , UFC (This story first appeared in USA TODAY .) LAS VEGAS – Nicknames in the world of mixed martial range form the amusing to the ridiculous but none are rooted in reality quite as much as that of Holly Holm . Holm is known as “The Preacher’s Daughter” for one reason – because her father, Roger, delivers weekly sermons at the Edgewood Church of Christ in Tijeras, N.M. Such matters of faith would appear to be at odds with the often-brutal nature of the fight game, with the seminal moment of Holm’s career coming with a crunching kick to the side of Ronda Rousey’s face in November. “I’m okay with it,” Roger Holm told USA TODAY Sports in a telephone interview
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How Holly Holm’s life as UFC champion can be ‘a little weird’ – MMA Junkie