Don’t adjust your sets. Yes, Miesha Tate is fighting. For the second time this year, in fact. And yes, she is knocking on the door of a title fight five years after retiring.
It was at UFC 205 in November 2016 that Tate lost a unanimous decision to Raquel Pennington, an outcome that led to her taking a hiatus from competition to focus on other business ventures and becoming a mother. On Saturday, Tate continues her quest to wear UFC gold again when she fights top-10 contender Ketlen Vieira.
Vieira is seeking her own path of redemption as she missed weight for the first time in her UFC career this past February then dropped a unanimous decision in a disappointing performance against Yana Kunitskaya. “Fenomeno” has now lost two of her past three fights, and what once seemed like an inevitable championship clash with Amanda Nunes is rapidly getting away from her.
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