January 22, 2024 11: 20 am ET
Miesha Tate doesn’t get the criticism surrounding the UFC 297 co-main occasion.
The uninhabited female’s bantamweight title was on the line Saturday at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto when Raquel Pennington dealtwith Mayra Bueno Silva. Pennington (16-8 MMA, 13-5 UFC) lastedlongerthan Bueno Silva (10-3-1 MMA, 5-3-1 UFC) to endedupbeing champ.
There wasn’t too much buzz surrounding their battle in the lead-up, which led to an sincere admission from Bueno Silva about the match itself. Headliner Sean Strickland, who lost his middleweight title to Dricus Du Plessis, suggested that he was bring the ladies on the card.
Former bantamweight champ Tate had rather a bit to state when responding to Pennington’s win, as well as Strickland’s close loss to Du Plessis.
Scroll listedbelow to see Tate’s remarks.
Tate tosses shade Strickland’s method
Damn this is a excellent battle, where’s Sean Strickland when you wanna program him some badass WMMA?!! Oh yea…. He’s warming up #ufc297
— Miesha Tate (@MieshaTate) January 21, 2024
Tate safeguards co-main
Man you guys are a hard crowd that battle was method muchbetter than I had expected, Raquel had such a long layoff I idea it would take her longer to discover her rhythm. battle was hectic and several sub efforts. Rocky nearly KOd Mayra at one point. u all not paying attention #ufc297.
— Miesha Tate (@MieshaTate) January 21, 2024
Tate continues to protect the co-main
Agreed, this was not a bad battle. They even remained quite hectic in the clinch. I’d like to see you all do it muchbetter https://t.co/9xu3T9wH2T
— Miesha Tate (@MieshaTate) January 21, 2024
Tate provides Bueno Silva the advantage of doubt
Well didn’t we understand tha