Ronda Rousey might still be licking her wounds and memorizing her movie scripts, but interest in the UFC remains red-hot thanks to talented trash-talker Conor McGregor from Ireland and Holly Holm, the UFC’s new women’s bantamweight champion from Albuquerque, N.M.

McGregor, the UFC featherweight champion, will be seeking further domination at welterweight while Holm is out for validation when UFC 196 takes place Saturday night at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Holm will be defending the belt she won last November by knocking out the previously invincible Rousey in Melbourne, Australia. A former world champion boxer and 10-0 in MMA, Holm faces challenger Miesha Tate (17-5), while McGregor (19-2) takes on Nate Diaz (19-10) in a five-round, 170-pound welterweight bout, two weight classes above the featherweight title McGregor owns after stopping Jose Aldo in 13 seconds last December in UFC 194.

“There’s a lot of people that play it safe in the game,” McGregor said. “They don’t take the risks. I take risks all the time.”

Tate was supposed to be Rousey’s opponent at UFC 193, but was pushed aside for Holm. After Holm dominated Rousey, stopping her with a vicious head-kick, the UFC had planned an immediate rematch. But Rousey said she needed more time to recover physically and emotionally from the defeat as well as fulfill commitments to movie roles. Tate gets her second chance at a title after being defeated by Rousey at UFC 168.

“She’s got a lot of things that present issues for me,” Holm told The Post recently. “She’s good in scrambles. She’s good at submissions. She’s got a wrestling background. She’s very well-rounded, and she’s been through a lot of battles. She’s not mentally broken easily. She just keeps coming.”

Rousey remains the 800-pound elephant in the Octagon, able to keep herself in the news by hosting “Saturday Night Live” and talking about how she contemplated suicide after her loss to Holm. Once she’s ready to fight again, Rousey is certain to get a title shot, but Holm wants to establish herself as the true champion in the meantime.

“When you’re the champion, everyone is gunning for you,” Holm said. “When the belt is on the line, everyone puts their A-game together.”

Brooklyn Olympian Sadam Ali gets a chance to win his first world boxing title Saturday night, when he faces Jessie Vargas of Las Vegas for the vacant WBO welterweight championship at the DC Armory in Washington. The fight will be shown on HBO as part of a double-header that also matches Luis Ortiz (24-0, 21 KOs) of Cuba and Tony Thompson (40-6, 27 KOs) of Washington for the WBA interim heavyweight title.

Vargas (26-1, nine KOs) is a former junior welterweight champion, while Ali (22-0, 13 KOs) is looking to claim the belt vacated by Timothy Bradley, who accepted a third bout with Manny Pacquiao. A member of the 2008 US Olympic boxing team, Ali’s pro career had been slow moving until signing with Golden Boy Promotions. He now has his long-awaited title shot.

“It’s a big steppingstone fighting for the WBO world title,” Ali said. “It’s the biggest fight of my career, and I’m excited about it. Some people, they might think I haven’t proved to be on the top elite level. But this is why I’m here. This is why I’m here to prove that. Jessie Vargas is a great fighter. But I am a great fighter. If anybody wants to underestimate me, then that’s fine. I’m just ready to go out there and show why I shouldn’t be underestimated.”