Former UFC bantamweight champion Miesha Tate recently revealed that her rivalry with fellow former champion Ronda Rousey goes a little deeper than some may have expected.
In an interview on the recent edition of The MMA Hour, as transcribed by MMA Fighting, Miesha Tate explained that they would likely not speak if they ran into each other again.
“I wouldn’t say hi to her and I doubt that she would say hi to me either. I think that we would just be like ‘oh’ and walk away from each other, like, awkward.” She said.
Tate then continued, “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.”
