UFC women's bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey and fellow women's fighter Miesha Tate have made little secret of their dislike for one another. While some people may hug out their differences, these two will cage fight it out, most likely on December 28th. Rousey is chomping at the bit to get a piece of Tate.
"I don't like her, I want to get it out of the way with Miesha as fast as I can," Rousey said. "I don't fake," anything, "why would I fake this" dislike?
Rousey has beaten Tate once before, but is not taking the challenge from her opposing The Ultimate Fighter 18 coach lightly. "My mom always says no one is easy until after you beat them, but even though I've beat Miesha, I think the fight will be extremely difficult," Rousey said.
UFC president Dana White was considering pushing Rousey's date with Tate back in order to set up a rematch between recently defeated middleweight legend Anderson Silva and new, young champion Chris Weidman, but decided against it.
Rousey is happy about that decision, indicating she isn't fond of long waits between bouts. "I don't want to be on the shelf too long ... it's not optimal, but I can handle anything," Rousey told The Los Angeles Times. "I would like to be on the New Year's card, but I can see why Dana wants that," Weidman-Silva rematch "to get done as soon as possible."
In their last fight, Tate said Rousey was able to get in her head with trash talking and throw her off her game. Rousey does not expect that to be the case this time around.
"She'll fight with a cooler head, I expect her to be more technically sound," Rousey said. "Last time, she came at me, out of control. That's why I didn't have a problem with her. I didn't rely on mind games to win. But mind games help. It's like a swimmer shaving off their arm hairs."
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