Nyligen blev det färdigställt att bantamviktsmästarinnan Miesha Tate ska upp i oktogonen för att möta Amanda Nunes, något som förvånade en hel del fans. Många trodde nämligen att Miesha skulle möta Holly Holm i ett returmöte, men enligt Tate så ville UFC att hon skulle möta Nunes istället.
Detta hade Miesha att säga, via ”MMAJunkie”:
They thought that Amanda was the next best girl in line. They were like, ‘Look, you just beat Holly. You finished her.’ They didn’t feel that it was necessary to have an immediate rematch; it didn’t warrant an immediate rematch. It wasn’t one of those performances or such a crazy fight that we’ve got to have an immediate rematch.
It was kind of like, ‘Let’s open up the division – we’d like you to fight Amanda’. I said, ‘Cool.’ Amanda’s someone I’ve had my eye on for a while, and I know she’s had her eye on me. Now’s the time we get to get in there and do what we do.
Holms manager Lenny Fresquez tror dock att det inte alls gick till på det sättet, och detta hade han att säga via ”The Albuquerque Journal”:
Holly was offered to her and she chose Nunes. She chose to take a weaker opponent. She’s not as stand-up as Holly. She said she’d take on the best, but she’s not willing to take on the best. Holly gave her a chance. We’re pretty disappointed she didn’t return the favor.
Tate kommer att möta Nunes i en titelmatch under UFC 200, som går av stapeln den 9 juli i Las Vegas.
