What if we had gotten Ladd-Holm?

UFC 235 in March of 2019 was supposed to feature a women's bantamweight contest between Aspen Ladd and Holly Holm among the other bouts on the card. Ladd at the time was 7-0 and coming off stoppage wins over Lina Lansberg and Yana Kunitskaya. 
However, the bout was removed from the card in a month or so out and not rescheduled. 

Had Ladd beaten Holm, particularly by stoppage, I feel confident in saying that she would've gotten the next title shot against Nunes and it would've come earlier than December 2019, maybe in the June through September time frame or maybe October. No disrespect to Sijara Eubanks, but Holm has the name value that being a former bantamweight champion and former featherweight title challenger will do for you. 

Had Holm won, she would've also gotten the title shot, but potentially just because women's bantamweight, even two years ago, had a talent problem where it was Nunes at the top and then everyone else. 

So basically, this would've been a #1 contender bout resulting in a Nunes-Winner title fight earlier than December, which would've meant UFC 245 wouldn't have featured Nunes-de Randamie. I'm guessing that UFC 243 in October of 2019 would've featured a women's bantamweight title fight as the co-main.  

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