{"id":115897,"date":"2025-09-03T04:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/115897\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T04:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:38:10","slug":"exciting-miesha-tate-mulls-combat-future-past-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/115897\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting Miesha Tate Mulls Combat Future Past 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former UFC Women\u2019s Bantamweight Champion Miesha Tate<\/a> has recently given a career update on her future in combat sports.<\/p>\n


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Miesha Tate Was Once Among Best Women\u2019s Bantamweights<\/p>\n

Standing amongst the most tenured female fighters currently active in the UFC, Miesha Tate boasts a stellar resume, which she has built fighting the best of the best over the nearly the last 20 years. Beginning her tenure as a professional mixed martial artist back in 2007, \u201cCupcake\u201d first came to prominence in the sport after her run in the stacked Strikeforce<\/a> Women\u2019s Bantamweight Tournament. Winning all her fights in the bracket, Tate went on to dethrone the one-time defending champion Marloes Coenen by fourth round submission.<\/p>\n

In 2013, the promotion would end up being acquired by the UFC in a landmark sale, with Tate making her company debut in April of that year, where she lost a close bout to Cat Zingano<\/a>. She then lost her next contest to bitter rival Ronda Rousey<\/a> in a bid for the bantamweight strap, leaving her future at the top of the division in question. Shattering all doubts, however, Tate managed to win her next four fights in a row to challenge then 135-lb queen Holly Holm, eventually choking out the phenom to win the bantamweight crown.<\/p>\n

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Miesha Tate Clarifies Current Status as a Competitor<\/p>\n

Competing just this past May at UFC on ESPN 67, Miesha Tate recorded a unanimous decision defeat to Yana Santos<\/a>. The fight was her first bout in almost two years after a 2023 Octagon excursion at UFC on ESPN 52. In the time period since that event, the former bantamweight titleholder had remained largely silent about her next trip to the cage, or if she was done with fighting in general. That was until an appearance on the JAXXON<\/a> Podcast this past week, where Miesha Tate provided an update on her future as a competitive martial artist.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not officially done. I still have a fight on my contract. I wouldn\u2019t fight more than one more time,\u201d Miesha Tate said.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019m not looking to re-sign. I think just one more, if that. But I haven\u2019t decided for sure. I might be leaning towards not.\u201d<\/p>\n

While she likely will be through with getting punched in the face for a living, the bantamweight luminary isn\u2019t against busting out her grappling chops every once in a while.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cBoxing for real? Like, I\u2019m not going to go do that,\u201d she said. \u201cMaybe some grappling competitions. Or even under the UFC banner. Maybe something like that, but we\u2019ll see. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m getting old, you know.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC Women\u2019s Bantamweight Champion Miesha Tate has recently given a career update on her future in combat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-115897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}