Former UFC Girls’s Bantamweight Champion Miesha Tate has lately given a profession replace on her future in fight sports activities.
Miesha Tate Was As soon as Amongst Finest Girls’s Bantamweights
Standing amongst probably the most tenured feminine fighters at present energetic within the UFC, Miesha Tate boasts a stellar resume, which she has constructed preventing the perfect of the perfect over the almost the final 20 years. Starting her tenure as knowledgeable blended martial artist again in 2007, “Cupcake” first got here to prominence within the sport after her run within the stacked Strikeforce Girls’s Bantamweight Event. Profitable all her fights within the bracket, Tate went on to dethrone the one-time defending champion Marloes Coenen by fourth spherical submission.
In 2013, the promotion would find yourself being acquired by the UFC in a landmark sale, with Tate making her firm debut in April of that yr, the place she misplaced a detailed bout to Cat Zingano. She then misplaced her subsequent contest to bitter rival Ronda Rousey in a bid for the bantamweight strap, leaving her future on the high of the division in query. Shattering all doubts, nevertheless, Tate managed to win her subsequent 4 fights in a row to problem then 135-lb queen Holly Holm, ultimately choking out the phenom to win the bantamweight crown.
Miesha Tate Clarifies Present Standing as a Competitor
Competing simply this previous Might at UFC on ESPN 67, Miesha Tate recorded a unanimous resolution defeat to Yana Santos. The combat was her first bout in nearly two years after a 2023 Octagon tour at UFC on ESPN 52. Within the time interval since that occasion, the previous bantamweight titleholder had remained largely silent about her subsequent journey to the cage, or if she was completed with preventing usually. That was till an look on the JAXXON Podcast this previous week, the place Miesha Tate supplied an replace on her future as a aggressive martial artist.
“I’m not formally completed. I nonetheless have a combat on my contract. I wouldn’t combat multiple extra time,” Miesha Tate mentioned. “I’m not seeking to re-sign. I feel only one extra, if that. However I haven’t determined for certain. I is likely to be leaning in direction of not.”
Whereas she doubtless will likely be via with getting punched within the face for a dwelling, the bantamweight luminary isn’t towards busting out her grappling chops each occasionally.
“Boxing for actual? Like, I’m not going to go try this,” she mentioned. “Perhaps some grappling competitions. And even underneath the UFC banner. Perhaps one thing like that, however we’ll see. I don’t know. I’m getting previous, you realize.”
