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Holly Holm is ready for french fries.

She's ready for sleeping in.

She ready for a vacation in Australia, and to take a crack at surfing.

It's not that the Albuquerque fighter was especially exhausted after defending her International Female Boxing Association welterweight championship Thursday night. Holm earned a unanimous decision against slick veteran Belinda Laracuente in an anticlimactic main event at the Pechanga Resort and Casino. Laracuente (23-18-3 KOs) of New York City hardly threatened Holm (21-1-2 KOs).

But the bout was Holm's second fight in 27 days. She needs to get her mind out of the ring. She needs to get her eyes off a punching bag - at least for a while.

"I'll tell you what, I'm ready to sleep in a few days and not have to worry about getting up and training," Holm said after her 14th straight victory (all by unanimous decision or TKO). "It's mostly mental."

Relaxation should be plentiful for Holm in the coming weeks. She and boyfriend Joey Villasenor, an Albuquerque mixed-martial arts fighter, will be in Australia, near the beach. It was a Christmas present from Villasenor.

Upon returning to New Mexico, Holm likely will start training again for a long-awaited fight against undefeated middleweight champ Mary Jo Sanders in June.

Mike Winklejohn, Holm's trainer, said the Sanders fight will be in Albuquerque and likely will be a pay-per-view event, a rarity in women's boxing. He also said Holm would bump up to the 154-pound class (she was 145 pounds Thursday). It's another chance for exposure.

When Thursday night's fight airs tonight on Fox Sports Net (11 p.m. MST), viewers will see a match that Holm called "a learning experience" and Winklejohn referred to as a bit disappointing.

Said Holm: "It feels good. Of course there's always stuff I wish I could have done better. But I still felt like I controlled the fight and dominated the fight."

Winklejohn wanted a knockout. He said an equipment change quashed that chance. Laracuente demanded during Wednesday's weigh-in that the fighters use the more heavily padded 10-ounce gloves, rather than the standard 8-ounce models.

"The size of the gloves made a big difference," Winklejohn said. "That was terrible."

He also acknowledged it wasn't just the gloves.

"I have to be critical of her," Winklejohn said of Holm. "Every now and then she stopped attacking; she wanted to hit the girl so hard. And the girl was kind of floating around and throwing punches, and it would hit Holly every once in a while. That was really the only time she got hit.

"But whenever she moved, she owned her; I was happy about that."

Holm had hoped to showcase some power combinations against Laracuente, but never landed the big punch. At times Holm seemed fazed by Laracuente's evasion tactics.

"Both of us are mover-boxers," Holm said. "That's probably the first time I fought a style like that, probably, ever. I think I adjusted well to her being such a different style than what I've been fighting lately."

Winklejohn expects the experience to benefit Holm when she faces similar opponents.

Until then, it's break time.