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Miesha Tate MMA

March 2, 2012 by · Comments Off on Miesha Tate MMA 

Miesha Tate MMA, Mixed martial artist Miesha Tate believes she has paid her dues in the sport. She also believes her experience warrants a certain amount of respect, and her opponent in Saturday’s Strikeforce bantamweight title bout isn’t showing enough of it.

“I just feel that, all in all, she’s not a good representation for our sport,” Tate said. “She knows how to sell a fight, and that’s fine and dandy. I feel our skills should come before anything else.”

Tate is referring to Ronda Rousey, a brash Olympic judo medalist who called out Tate for a title shot after just four brief but impressive professional fights against non-contenders at a higher weight class (145 pounds).

Tate was supposed to fight in a rematch against former bantamweight (135 pounds) champion Sarah Kaufman after winning a classic fight against Marloes Coenen to take the crown. But Strikeforce scrapped the Tate-Kaufman rematch and set up the Tate-Rousey clash instead. And a few martial arts themes will be at play: respect, patience and the “right way” of doing things.

Rousey makes no apologies for insisting on the matchup.

“We’re the most marketable ones right now,” Rousey told Tate in a live debate on “The MMA Hour” in November while still campaigning for the title shot.

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