Former UFC Ladies’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 Greatest Ladies’s Bantamweights
Standing amongst probably the most tenured feminine fighters presently energetic within the UFC, Miesha Tate boasts a stellar resume, which she has constructed combating the perfect of the perfect over the practically 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 Ladies’s Bantamweight Match. 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 an in depth 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 prime 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 Could at UFC on ESPN 67, Miesha Tate recorded a unanimous choice defeat to Yana Santos. The struggle 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 performed with combating basically. 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 performed. I nonetheless have a struggle on my contract. I wouldn’t struggle multiple extra time,” Miesha Tate mentioned. “I’m not trying 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 probably might be by with getting punched within the face for a residing, the bantamweight luminary isn’t in opposition to busting out her grappling chops each now and again.
“Boxing for actual? Like, I’m not going to go do this,” she mentioned. “Possibly some grappling competitions. And even below the UFC banner. Possibly one thing like that, however we’ll see. I don’t know. I’m getting previous, you recognize.”
