TUF 18: 5 Reasons Miesha Tate Is the Perfect Replacement for Cat Zingano

With Cat Zingano out of the coaching position opposite women’s bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey on the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter, the UFC announced Miesha Tate as Zingano’s replacement.Despite being the No. 3 contender behind Zingano and N…

With Cat Zingano out of the coaching position opposite women’s bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey on the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter, the UFC announced Miesha Tate as Zingano’s replacement.

Despite being the No. 3 contender behind Zingano and No. 2 Sarah Kaufman, the decision-makers over at Zuffa may have just hit ratings gold. Read on for five reasons Tate is the perfect replacement.

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Chael Sonnen Out? Five UFC Retirements That Could (or Should) Happen in 2013

I’ve never been one to wish the end of a fighting career on anyone (there are plenty of shady promotions and freak injuries out there to do that for me), but as we approach our last few UFC cards of the year, you can’t help but wonder who’s in and who’…

I’ve never been one to wish the end of a fighting career on anyone (there are plenty of shady promotions and freak injuries out there to do that for me), but as we approach our last few UFC cards of the year, you can’t help but wonder who’s in and who’s out in the new year.

The following predictions are mostly speculation mixed with a little bit of hope (in a certain case, anyway) and absolutely no basis in fact.

For all we know, Tim Sylvia could be back after surviving the head kick from hell thanks to Arlovski, and Anderson Silva could retire his belt and pursue a lifelong passion for cheesemaking. Total. Speculation.

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