There is no doubt Ronda Rousey is currently the face of the women’s mixed martial arts landscape, but Miesha Tate wants to remind everyone that Rousey is enjoying the fruits of many others’ spoils. Rousey has been receiving a lot of credit for giving WMMA a lot of attention, and now that Rousey will most likely end up being the first female fighter in the UFC, Tate is making sure to remind everyone that she didn’t alone. Is Tate just angling for another fight with Rouse? Perhaps, In one of the biggest fights of Strikeforce’s history Tate was finished by Rousey early in the fight, but there is a long history of women fighting mixed martial arts.
Tate told told MMAWeekly,
“It’s not just Ronda, it’s not just myself, that’s for sure. If Ronda’s coming over to the UFC obviously there’s going to be a division around that, it’s not just Ronda. I know Ronda’s getting a lot of the credit and what not, but she didn’t have a lot to do with from the ground up..”
“We’re at the top of the mountain now that’s kind of how I feel anyways, with this accomplishment coming into the UFC, we’ve kind of reached that final goal. But we had to start at the bottom and a lot of the pioneers Tara LaRosa, Marloes Coenen, Molly Helsel, the girls that were really fighting back in the day before we were making any kind of money, or there was any kind of publicity, or much acceptance of it.”
“We were fighting for this, right here, right now. She’s getting a lot of the credit and the limelight, but people who follow the sport understand there was a lot more getting to this point. I hope people can recognize that and give all the women that have worked really hard some credit.”
Miesha Tate Says She Was Never Offered Match-Up with Ronda Rousey
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I’m leaving a comment to say that last comment was so far beyond epic that they have changed the word epic in the dictionary to “the comment”
look you bigmouth blowhard; if it wasn’t for ronda rousey, there wouldn’t be any women heading to the ufc; you included! In fact, honestly, as far as the ufc is concerned, you’re just an afterthought. the best thing you could do is shut your big fu**ing mouth and be grateful that ronda has done what she has done; otherwise, if you still had any career at all, it would be fighting for invicta in kansas somewhere, getting your face kicked in again by Kedzie or some other middle of the road female fighter.
You’re lucky you were ronda’s 1st major fight; otherwise, you wouldn’t have lasted more than a minute, which is exactly what will happen if you ever get into the cage with her again.
You told everybody that would listen that ronda didn’t deserve a shot for the title against you. You bragged that you were far more experienced than her, and that you would going to make her eat her words. She beat your sorry ass in less than one round, destroying your arm in the process, and you haven’t shut up since.
You’re jealous that she is getting all the star treatment you’d always dreamed you would get. You’re jealous because she with only 4 pro fights and less than 1 year pro experience beat your sorry ass and slapped that title away from you, just like she said she would do, making you a paper champ at best., (someone who won a championship fight, but never successfully defended it).
You don’t look as good as her, you can’t fight as good as her, you can’t beat her, and you’re getting peanuts attention wise compared to her. And you can’t stand it. So you whine, and whine, and whine.
Get lost, Tate! The last thing anyone wants to hear is the constant whine oozing out of your big mouth!