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UFC: Miesha Tate Lands Fitness Gurls Magazine Cover in Bikini

It’s Miesha Tate in a bikini; what more could you possibly want?
Well to keep it PG let’s just say MMA fans will definitely be satisfied to see the cover of Fitness Gurls Magazine. Jesse Caraway of MMA Mania has the details with the actual pic.
As…

It’s Miesha Tate in a bikini; what more could you possibly want?

Well to keep it PG let’s just say MMA fans will definitely be satisfied to see the cover of Fitness Gurls Magazine. Jesse Caraway of MMA Mania has the details with the actual pic.

As you can see, the Sinful brand of clothing has never looked so good.

It continues what has been a good day for “Team Cupcake” as she defeated UFC women’s bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey in the opening round vote to share the cover with Jon Jones on the next UFC video game. On Dec. 28, Tate will hope to defeat her nemesis inside the Octagon as Rousey and “Cupcake” will rematch one another for UFC gold.

Oh and there’s also that ESPN photo shoot you may have forgotten about. Here’s a NSFW reminder in case you did.

Tate has also enjoyed a surge in popularity due in part to how Rousey has conducted herself on the current season of The Ultimate Fighter. Although fans aren’t necessarily all on “Team Tate,” there’s undeniably a lot less Rousey fans walking around these days.

The hatred of one another has been a main focal point of TUF and in the women’s division in the UFC. The two women are the division’s biggest stars and the fact they don’t like one another makes their matchup an easy sell.

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Rousey’s Coach: Miesha’s Mom Wouldn’t Approve of Her Being a Fake-Ass B*tch

Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate don’t like each other; this is a well-known fact that comes up again and again. But just when it seemed the animosity between Team Rousey and Team Tate couldn’t rise any higher…
Well, there they go, dragging th…

Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate don’t like each other; this is a well-known fact that comes up again and again. But just when it seemed the animosity between Team Rousey and Team Tate couldn’t rise any higher…

Well, there they go, dragging their moms into it.

As reported by Jesse Holland of MMAMania.com, a member of Rousey’s coaching staff, Marina Shafir, took some time with Fist-Ta-Cuff radio (via BJPenn.com) to address a recent action of hers: flipping Tate the bird.

Yeah, that [middle finger] was a tasteless moment on our part, but you know what? It was viewed a lot, very disrespectful, and “how could you do that?” and I had a lot of Tweets from people saying they had daughters and [I} lost a fan because [their] daughter saw that and she looked up to you,” said Shafir. “You know what though? Your daughter is going to have to make a decision at some point in her life to defend her honor, and defend who she is, and to defend the honesty of what her life is about. And you know what? That’s what we did in that instance.

It seemed as though Shafir was trying to encapsulate the tone and mood that Team Rousey was feeling, all for the sake of honor. She spoke of how their actions didn’t come out in a way many people would understand. She also said that she knew that was where the confusion and judgment came in, and for that she was sorry.

She said they wanted to be good role models to all of the up-and-coming women in MMA who are strong-willed, but then things began to get muddled.

“We’re going to try to do the right thing, but a lot of the time the right thing is going to be the wrong thing, and there’s no other real way I can explain that. Miesha, you really think your mom is going to approve of you being a fake-ass b*tch?”

Not since Tito Ortiz and Ken Shamrock have two fighters disliked each other so much. While bad blood between fighters has long been a marketable aspect of the fight game, Rousey and Tate are redefining the term with a vengeance.

But neither side should be dragging their moms into it.

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Miesha Tate: ‘Emotionally Unstable’ Ronda Rousey Only Promotes Herself, Not WMMA

Upcoming UFC bantamweight title challenger Miesha Tate is looking to avenge a loss to arch nemesis and divisional champ Ronda Rousey at UFC 168, and the secret is out that there is a ton of bad blood between these two fighters. 
Rousey and Tate’s …

Upcoming UFC bantamweight title challenger Miesha Tate is looking to avenge a loss to arch nemesis and divisional champ Ronda Rousey at UFC 168, and the secret is out that there is a ton of bad blood between these two fighters. 

Rousey and Tate’s heated feud has been getting aired out in the public on season 18 of The Ultimate Fighter, where the two top-tier competitors are head coaching opposite one another. 

“Cupcake” has been documenting her experiences on the show through a blog on Yahoo! Sports, with her most recent entry taking some heavy shots at the “Rowdy” one. 

While I find it interesting that this was really the first time the producers showed Ronda flipping me off, I really think the viewers are getting to see the real Ronda this season—and it’s not pretty. She’s got a great skill set and as an athlete she’s awesome. But she’s not interested in building female MMA, she’s interested in building Ronda MMA and then leaving for movies or something else. She isn’t an MMA fan at heart. Shayna was the only fighter out of the 16 women who fought to get in the house that Ronda had heard of. The other girls, Ronda had no clue who they were, what they had done, where they had fought, nothing.

Last month, Rousey told MMA Junkie that she was worried about the way she was going to be portrayed on TUF, though Tate is arguing that is the type of person the former Olympic bronze medalist really is. 

Rousey has her hands full leading up to the December 28 rematch with Tate, as she is filming roles in The Expendables 3 and Fast & Furious 7, something her old rival was also a bit critical of. 

“No one would have turned down a Hollywood movie without giving it a lot of soul-searching, but surely Ronda could do phone interviews or at least tweet about TUF. They have cell phone reception in Europe, don’t they?” Tate wrote in her blog, criticizing Rousey for her lack of promotion for the reality show. 

The 27-year-old Washington native also writes that she feels that she has the psychological edge heading into her title tilt with Rousey, an advantage she admits the champion had when they met in Strikeforce in March 2012. 

Rousey won that bout, and the Strikeforce women’s bantamweight title, by first-round armbar, though the fight was competitive in the earlier moments of the opening frame. 

Since then, Rousey has won two fights, including her UFC  debut, with her patented first-round armbar – while Tate won a thriller over Julie Kedzie last August and lost a tough fight against Cat Zingano this April. 

Tate dominated the first two rounds against Zingano before getting TKO’ed in the third round, a stoppage she adamantly disagreed with. 

Despite losing the title eliminator fight, Tate got her rematch with Rousey after Zingano suffered a knee injury days before TUF filming began and Cupcake was happy to take her place, per USA Today. 

Will Tate pull off a stunning upset at the UFC’s annual year-end pay-per-view, or will Rousey’s reign of dominance continue?

 

John Heinis is a Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report. He is also the MMA Editor for eDraft.com.

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Ex-TUF Contestant: I Hate B**** Miesha Tate and She Is Secretly in Love with Me

If you aren’t familiar with female bantamweight fighter Tonya Evinger right now, you will be after checking out her latest comments about top contender Miesha Tate. 
“Triple Threat” went on a hate-filled rant against Tate during an appearance on P…

If you aren’t familiar with female bantamweight fighter Tonya Evinger right now, you will be after checking out her latest comments about top contender Miesha Tate. 

“Triple Threat” went on a hate-filled rant against Tate during an appearance on Pro MMA Now Radio yesterday, with MMA Mania providing a transcription of the juiciest snippets.  

Miesha and I know each other real well. I hate the b*tch and she is secretly in love with me. I can tell just the way she looks at me and all that s**t. She can’t leave me alone, you know what I mean? I know she has a big crush, but we’re never getting together. I’m not into her, you know? She’s disgusting. No, I don’t know. I don’t care what she says. She’s got her nose in everyone’s business, so I think it’s f*cked up to say since I hadn’t even fought yet. It’s already dropping her little seed in Dana’s ear. I’m going to knee her in the c**ter for that one, you know what I mean? I’m going to knee her or something really hot. I’m going to go crazy. I’ve been wanting to fight her for a long time. That would be a great fight. She’s friends with one of my exes, so apparently she knows every single thing about me. But she knows everything about everyone else in the sport, so Miesha digs her own grave everywhere. I have always not liked her and I’ll continue to not like her, so she can say whatever she wants.

Strong words from a fighter who was submitted in an elimination fight to make it into The Ultimate Fighter house for season 18. 

Tate is of course one of the head coaches this season and, coincidentally, Evinger lost to Raquel Pennington, a member of Team Tate who has made the show’s semifinals after an epic battle with Jessamyn Duke in the quarterfinals. 

Evinger has an 11-6 professional record and has competed in MMA since mid-2006, with her losses coming to top-tier competition such as Gina Carano, Alexis Davis (twice) and Sara McMann. 

She currently boasts a three-fight win streak, most recently defeating Carina Damm last November. 

As for Tate, despite being just 1-2 in her past three bouts, “Cupcake” will get her rematch with UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey at UFC 168 on December 28 in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Should Evinger make her way inside the Octagon next year, is there any set of circumstances that would make a grudge match with Tate the logical fight to make?


John Heinis is a Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report. He is also the MMA Editor for eDraft.com.

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Conor McGregor Apologies for Sexual Tweet About Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate

Flashy UFC featherweight Conor McGregor caught the attention of practically the entire MMA world this morning when he made a sexual joke on Twitter regarding women’s MMA stars Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate. 
A fan tweeted at McGregor: “one night be…

Flashy UFC featherweight Conor McGregor caught the attention of practically the entire MMA world this morning when he made a sexual joke on Twitter regarding women’s MMA stars Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate. 

A fan tweeted at McGregor: “one night before the world ends…Ronda or Miesha?” McGregor’s response? “One riidin d*ck, one lickin ma toessssss.”

For the record, the response is line from world-renowned rapper Dr. Dre’s song, “Let’s Get High.”

Nevertheless, “The Notorious” apparently felt bad about the response and has since deleted the tweet and posted a fairly lengthy response on Facebook.  

Rousey, the UFC women’s bantamweight champion, and Tate, the division’s top contender, are currently coaching opposite one another on season 18 of The Ultimate Fighter. 

While both competitors are regarded as two of the best female fighters in the business, their sex appeal is well documented as well, as Rousey and Tate have both appeared in ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue. 

The two arch rivals will square off one more time at UFC 168 in Las Vegas on December 28. Rousey defeated Tate for the Strikeforce title back in March of 2012.

Did McGregor cross the line with his remark about a potential threesome with Rousey and Tate, or was this just a comment made in jest while a young athlete was interacting with a fan?

 

John Heinis is a Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report. He is also the MMA Editor for eDraft.com.

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Regrettable Tweet of the Day: Conor McGregor’s Three-Way Sex Fantasy, Featuring the TUF 18 Coaches and Toe-Oral [UPDATED]


(Like a BOSS. / Screen-cap via @TheNotoriousMMA)

Irish rising star Conor McGregor is having quite an eventful year: He’s already had his first UFC victory and his first debilitating knee injury — and his first forced apology might be right around the corner.

The tweet above is what happened when a fan asked the fun-lovin’ featherweight a relatively harmless question about who he fancied more, Ronda Rousey or Miesha Tate. And man did he knock this one out of the park. Eric Holden is crying and masturbating in your honor, sir.

To be honest, the most offensive thing about this tweet is the way McGregor sticks all the extra S’s at the end of “toes,” like he’s some over-excited teenage girl who can’t wait to get the new iPhone you guyssssssss!!! I fucking hate that shit. The real question is, which TUF 18 coach would be on toe-duty?

Update: And here’s that apology…


(Like a BOSS. / Screen-cap via @TheNotoriousMMA)

Irish rising star Conor McGregor is having quite an eventful year: He’s already had his first UFC victory and his first debilitating knee injury — and his first forced apology might be right around the corner.

The tweet above is what happened when a fan asked the fun-lovin’ featherweight a relatively harmless question about who he fancied more, Ronda Rousey or Miesha Tate. And man did he knock this one out of the park. Eric Holden is crying and masturbating in your honor, sir.

To be honest, the most offensive thing about this tweet is the way McGregor sticks all the extra S’s at the end of “toes,” like he’s some over-excited teenage girl who can’t wait to get the new iPhone you guyssssssss!!! I fucking hate that shit. The real question is, which TUF 18 coach would be on toe-duty?

Update: And here’s that apology…

“I would like to personally apologize to both Ronda Rousey and Miesha Tate. This morning I quoted a song on Twitter in an attempt to make a joke, which I now I see was totally unacceptable and offensive. I have infinite respect for Miesha and Ronda as individuals and as athletes. I have always been a big fan of women’s MMA and the incredible talented athletes that compete in the sport. I regret making this offensive comment and I sincerely apologize to anyone whom I offended, but especially Ronda and Miesha.“