UFC women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate is no stranger to the bright lights of the main stage in MMA. Having shared a fierce rivalry with Ronda Rousey in the lead up to their UFC 168 meeting, ‘Cupcake’ also starred in the preceding season of The Ultimate Fighter opposite ‘Rowdy.’ For these reasons, Tate was a little surprised when Conor McGregor decided not to show up to a recent press conference.
The UFC featherweight champion was booked in to rematch Nate Diaz at UFC 200, but when the time came for the media obligations, ‘The Notorious’ refused to board a plane and attend the press conference.
Many thought it was perhaps a ploy by the promotion to up sales on tickets and PPV, but when McGregor was scratched from the event all together, the pieces started to fall in to place. When asked in a recent interview, Tate said she had to ‘pick up the pieces’ when the Irish star no-showed the presser, and now talking with MMAFighting.com, she clarifies exactly what she meant:
“And what I mean by ‘had to pick up some pieces’ was the day that we had to film the commercial – which Dana White told me that they spent like ten million dollars marketing this card, they’re way over budget but you’ve got to spend money to make money kind of a thing – So he’s putting so much money into this and he offered, Conor was going to get to fly over in a private jet and bring up to twenty people with him. I mean, how awesome first of all. And how easy. You bring your whole gym with you pretty much if you want to. You could probably train on the plane. It’s a private plane. Hit mitts on the plane. You know, train right when you land and then you’re in and out. They tried to make it as easy as they could on him but if you are the main event you have to do that. You’ve got to do that stuff…
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