Morning Report: Miesha Tate believes Ronda Rousey is ‘holding onto the resentment’ from end of MMA career

Miesha Tate has put her iconic rivalry with Ronda Rousey behind her.

If it weren’t for the pair of former UFC bantamweight champions, there’s a powerful probability that ladies wouldn’t have been added to the UFC roster after they inevitably had been in 2013. Rousey defeated Tate along with her patented first-round armbar in spherical one to turn out to be the Strikeforce champion earlier than the corporate was absorbed by the UFC, resulting in an eventual rematch. Rousey gained as soon as once more, that point with an armbar in spherical three, and the rivalry was resolved, however the unhealthy blood remained.

Rousey’s Tate rematch was the second protection of her reign as UFC champion, and he or she in the end dropped that label in powerful style when Holly Holm knocked her out in spherical two of their November 2015 conflict at UFC 193. Rousey, 37, has just lately claimed throughout media promotion for her new books that she handled concussions all through her life, some occurring as early as age six. The “Rowdy” one has additionally expressed how she’s felt “vilified” from the game, which Tate disagrees with.

“I personally don’t have the animosity that I had for Ronda at one level,” Tate informed MMA on Sirius XM. “The disdain, the frustration, I’ve been capable of work by way of these issues and see my fault in it and attempt to be a greater individual. I want that I may say that I noticed the identical progress from Ronda, but it surely doesn’t appear that method. It actually appears that she’s holding onto the resentment, the frustration, and the anger, and permitting it to dictate her subsequent strikes.

“I don’t suppose the MMA group, largely, ever turned their again on Ronda.”

Though Rousey did obtain loads of detrimental suggestions and backlash for a way she dealt with her two losses that closed out her MMA profession, she was one of the vital and influential figures for the game. A lot in order that many fighters adopted their desires and aspirations to compete due to her.

From Tate’s perspective, she sees Rousey’s feedback because the unhealthy reactions outweighing the great.

“She forgot that there have been lots of of 1000’s of little ladies around the globe that had been nonetheless idolizing her,” Tate stated. “They didn’t care if she gained or misplaced, they thought she was wonderful both method.

“She doesn’t appear to have come to the purpose the place I wish to see her be but. I believe she’s nonetheless actually damage by it however I believe she’s very targeted on self, as a substitute of self-growth. I believe she’s nonetheless targeted on, ‘Properly, that is what occurred to me. All these folks turned on me. I had all these concussions occur to me, and no person was serious about me.’ It’s like, nicely, hold on, it’s not fairly like that. Individuals beat you down a bit. It comes with fame. No person will get away unscathed in life a lot much less in case your life is placed on a magnitude scale the place all people will get to witness your rise like they witness your fall. But it surely occurs to each champion. This isn’t a Ronda Rousey vs. the world state of affairs. It’s when you find yourself nice, typically folks simply wish to see greatness fall.”

Backlash didn’t finish for Rousey post-MMA as she discovered herself within the professional wrestling world shortly after retiring in early 2017. As for Tate, she retired earlier than Rousey after a unanimous choice loss to the now-champion Raquel Pennington earlier than coming again in 2021.

A technique or one other, Rousey left followers from her period with loads of recollections.

“Most individuals are wholesome people residing their life, rooting for her, they usually had been wanting her to proceed her success they usually loved it,” Tate stated. “These folks I really feel like had been forgotten about and that’s simply form of unhappy, ?”

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