Miesha Tate kommer under UFC 197 att möta bantamviktsmästarinnan Holly Holm, på huvudkortet med Conor McGregor och Rafael Dos Anjos. Hon har dock inga problem med att McGregor kommer att stjäla showen under kvällen.
Well you know what, it’s really nice, because it definitely takes a lot of the distractions off, and he seems to handle it really well. And the good thing about it is, when I go out there and take this belt, regardless, there’s going to be a lot of eyes watching. Because whether they want to see Conor McGregor or they want to see our fight, they’re going to be watching. We’re right before their fight, so pretty much the entire world’s going to see that, and I’m really excited about that. So that’s the most important thing.
If he’s going to take on the role of taking most the questions and most the lead-up and most of that stress, let him have it. Because when that fight comes people are going to be watching, and that’s all I care about.
Tate fick uppleva McGregors trashtalk på plats under presskonferensen och imponerades utav irländarens kontroll.
It’s kind of mind blowing, honestly. I have never sat next to Conor at a press conference. I’ve heard his interviews and things like that, but I’ve never sat next to him and really just listened to him do his full gamut of mental warfare, and it was honestly pretty impressive. I don’t know where this guy gets it from but I mean he is really in his own right a genius.
It was just crazy to watch it unfold. It was just kind of jaw-dropping, and there were definitely times where I kind of caught myself laughing, and I was like, oh my gosh, I should not be laughing at this right now. But he is really funny, and he’s just very witty. He’s a very intelligent man.
Hon tror också att förseningen till konferensen var något som McGregor planerade.
Well Dana seemed a little bit irritated and everyone else seemed a little bit stressed out, kind of frantically trying to locate him or find him or figure out what was going on. And I think that Conor wanted to do it on purpose, again I think it’s part of his strategy to always be the star of the show. To always be the last man standing, the last man to get attention. I think he had it planned a little bit, but I can’t say for sure. But I wouldn’t put it past him to want to make an entrance. He didn’t want to just walk in like everybody else. He wanted to make his entrance, and he did.
UFC 197 äger rum i Las Vegas den 5 mars.
