Holly Holm is tired. This isn’t altogether surprising. Since she accomplished the unthinkable by not only defeating the UFC’s queen bee, Ronda Rousey, but completely demolishing her, Holm’s life has been turned upside down. Just this morning, in fact, she was live with Kelly and Michael, teaching them how to throw The Kick. (You know the one.) Before that it was a West Coast media blitz filled with your Mario Lopezes and Larry Kings; a Clippers game with Floyd Mayweather, Jr.; and something about piano lessons with Jamie Foxx. At some indeterminate point, she hung out with Jay Z and asked Beyoncé what her name was. All this on top of a flight back to the States from Australia, on top of the biggest fight of her career, on top of months and months of relentless training for the biggest fight of her career. So, yeah, Holly Holm is tired.

If there’s one thing you need to know about Holly Holm, it is that she’s a fighter first and foremost. She claims that her goal moving forward is to perfect her jab, which sounds a little crazy coming from a woman who held multiple boxing titles and was named Female Fighter of the Year two years in a row by The Ring magazine. But training is hand-to-God one of her favorite things in the world. “I actually really enjoy it,” she says, with a smirk that makes it impossible not to believe her. “When I don’t have a fight scheduled, training is even more fun. I can come into the gym and work on stuff that isn’t generated for a specific game plan. I can just play around with it and have a good time. I never want to get to the point where I’m sick of it.”

In a somewhat ironic twist, the biggest knock against Ronda in this last bout was that she didn’t train hard enough. She was distracted. She dedicated too much time to filming movies. She got caught up in the lights and buzz of Hollywood. But can you blame her? Sure, you’re making a nice chunk of change when you’re the champ, especially when a day of work typically ranges somewhere between 14 to 45 seconds. But the fight itself is just the final chapter in a long, drawn-out saga; distractions are understandable. Even Holly will relent enough to admit that training for a fight is stressful. That sometimes you just break down and cry, or lash out at your friends because you’re so tightly wound by the thought of all that training and dieting crescendoing into a loss. So I asked:

Does the Hollywood route interest you at all? Is that something you’d like to do in the future?

“I’m always open to suggestions. I’m open to opportunities. Whether I take them or not, I don’t know. And I would only take them if I weren’t training, if I didn’t have a fight scheduled. I really want to keep my focus on fighting. That’s where all these doors are opening up from anyways. I don’t want to lose sight of that. I love fighting. I did film two days for a movie in New Jersey, though.”

How was that?

“It’s mentally and physically hard to train for a fight, but I still would rather go through that than filming take after take, you know?”

What was the project?

“It’s called Fight Valley. I’m sure it’s not going to be the biggest deal. Cris Cyborg and Miesha Tate are in it, too, which is cool.”