Miesha Tate News

Russell Ess - April 13, 2016

UFC women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate is set to fight and defend her title for the first time against Amanda Nunes at UFC 200 in July. Although focused on defending her title against Nunes, Tate spoke with MMA Junkie on the potential rematch with Holm, which is what the former champ wants more than anything.

Russell Ess - April 8, 2016

There has been a lot of talk since the UFC announced that their women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate would be fighting Amanda Nunes at UFC 200. Lenny Fresquez, manager of former champion Holly Holm claims that Tate “chose to take a weaker opponent” in Nunes.

bjpenndotcom - April 8, 2016

While Miesha Tate is currently gearing up for her UFC 200 co-main event fight against Amanda Nunes, which will also serve as her first title defense, she has bigger plans in mind. Tate spoke to Fox Sports Live to explain why she has unfinished business with Ronda Rousey that she plans on finishing.

bjpenndotcom - April 8, 2016

Earlier this week, Holly Holm’s manager called out Miesha Tate for taking “the easy way out” and declining a rematch with Holly Holm in order to fight Amanda Nunes at UFC 200. According to Miesha Tate’s manager Josh Jones, that wasn’t the case…

bjpenndotcom - April 6, 2016

Late Wednesday evening it was announced that Miesha Tate and Amanda Nunes would be fighting at UFC 200 for Tate’s UFC women’s bantamweight championship. UFC President Dana White took to Instagram shortly after the fight was announced to reveal a pretty awesome promo poster for the fight, which goes down on July 9th.

bjpenndotcom - March 26, 2016

https://youtu.be/fhz2xP_VNG4 Earlier this month at UFC 196, Miesha Tate shocked the world as she mounted an impressive comeback in the 5th round of her co-main event scrap with Holly Holm to win the UFC women’s bantamweight championship.

bjpenndotcom - March 19, 2016

There have always been talks of Invicta FC champion Cris Cyborg eventually making her UFC debut. Despite that, UFC President Dana White remained adamant that Cyborg will never fight under the UFC banner. Recently however, a report emerged which shed light on the possibility of Cyborg fighting on the UFC 198 card in Curitiba Brazil.

bjpenndotcom - March 19, 2016

Tonight in Brisbane, Australia, MMA legends Mark Hunt and Frank Mir will square off inside the Octagon in a pivotal heavyweight showdown.

Russell Ess - March 18, 2016

Holly Holm was likely just one round away from defending her UFC women’s bantamweight title for her first time at UFC 196. Unfortunately for Holm, Miesha Tate took the win and the belt by securing a rear-naked choke on Holm in the fifth round that put Holm to sleep. “I think she just crumbled under the pressure when I took her down in that second round,” Tate told Fight Network’s John Pollock (transcribed by MMA Fighting). “My coaches and Bryan [Caraway] actually told me, ‘She’s either going to stay down and be so scared about being submitted that you’re going to ground and pound her and beat her up or she’s going to try desperately to get up. Because your top pressure is so heavy she’s going to be forced to leave something out there and you’re going to grab it and you’re going to submit this girl.’

bjpenndotcom - March 18, 2016

UFC 200 is set for July 9th inside the new T-Mobile arena Las Vegas and should be the biggest event in the company history but the lineup is not set. Miesha Tate, the newly crowned bantamweight champion, said she would like to fight.

Chris Taylor - March 12, 2016

UFC bantamweight contender Bryan Caraway does not believe former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey should receive an immediate title shot when she returns to the UFC octagon. According to “Kid Lightning”, it is not fair to have Rousey fight for the title while coming off of a loss, when other girls like Amanda Nunes have put together solid win streaks of their own:

Russell Ess - March 10, 2016

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Russell Ess - March 7, 2016

Miesha Tate realized her dream of becoming a UFC champion on Saturday night. Tate secured a rear-naked choke on Holly Holm in the fifth and final round of their title fight at UFC 196 and choked Holm unconscious. Tate took to Instagram to address her fans and acknowledged Holm with a great amount of respect.

Russell Ess - March 7, 2016

Talk about a deja vu.

bjpenndotcom - March 7, 2016

As soon as Miesha Tate beat Holly Holm,  Sara McMann called for rematch with Miesha Tate via Twitter.  

Chris Taylor - March 6, 2016

Miesha Tate sat down with the UFC on FOX panel after shocking the world by submitting Holly Holm in the fifth-round of their co-main event fight at UFC 196.

bjpenndotcom - March 5, 2016

In the 5th round of the co-main event scrap between Holly Holm and Miesha Tate, Miesha Tate secured a 5th round rear naked choke win to claim the UFC women’s bantamweight championship. Not only did Tate get the submission win, she choked Holm unconscious.

Chris Taylor - February 28, 2016

UFC women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm will make her first title defense at UFC 196 on March 5 when she defends her strap against former Strikeforce champion Miesha Tate in the evening’s co-main event slot.