After her loss to Raquel Pennington at UFC 205 in November, Miesha Tate announced she was retiring from the sport.
Many were shocked considering eight months before that, Tate captured the UFC women’s bantamweight title, submitting Holly Holm in the fifth round. Then in her next fight, Tate lost the title to current champion, Amanda Nunes.
Coming up on Saturday night at UFC 208, the UFC will crown their first women’s featherweight champion when Holm goes up against Germaine de Randamie.
With a new weight class on the horizon, would that pique “Cupcake’s” interest in a return to the octagon?
“At this point, it’s not even on the radar, so I can’t say that will probably happen, because I don’t think that it will,” Tate said on MMAJunkie Radio.
“I’m really happy in the retirement, honestly. I’ve just been really enjoying myself and figuring out a little bit more about who I am beyond Miesha the fighter. It’s been a very interesting process, so I’m really enjoying that. I don’t have any plans to come back, or even any desire to.
“So unless that drastically changes, I don’t see myself going back in there. It’s an all-or-none sport. It’s got to be 110 percent, or not at all for me. So unless something makes me want to get back in there like a crazy person, I won’t be.”
