The rivalry between Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey may be long gone, but the bitter feelings may still linger.
Tate and Rousey had an intense rivalry going back to Strikeforce. Rousey defeated Tate via first-round submission to capture the Strikeforce women’s bantamweight title back in March 2012. They met again in Dec. 2013 and the result was the same. The only difference was it took “Rowdy” three rounds in the rematch to finish the fight.
During a recent appearance on MMAFighting.com‘s “The MMA Hour,” Tate explained why she and Rousey aren’t likely to bury the hatchet:
“I don’t hate Ronda, I really don’t. I don’t like her, but hate is such a strong word. I don’t like her because we don’t see a lot eye to eye, and we’ve had some bad conversations and I feel like she’s been very disrespectful. But at the end of the day, I’m not the person to harness hate toward someone, so, out of respect to her, I’d be like ‘hey,’ you know? There have been a couple occasions before things got way more heated where we were sort of okay, like ‘hi, bye’ okay, and I was fine with that, you know? But I think it’s more her terms than mine, which is fine.”
