Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey have never really been close.
MMA fans know that, as the two squared off twice in the Octagon, with Rousey winning both fights and refusing to shake Tate’s hand after the second one because of things that Tate said about her family.
Well, it seems like they still aren’t close, which isn’t a surprise at all. Tate dove into Rousey’s post-UFC mindset during her SiriusXM radio show on Thursday.
Her comments were based off what Rousey recently said on a UFC 25th Anniversary video.
From the great Damon Martin at MMA News:
In a documentary shot for the UFC’s 25th anniversary, Rousey said she wasn’t sure anybody deserved to hear her feelings on her legacy because “how I feel about myself and my own legacy is something precious to me, so you don’t get to hear it, you just get to have your own opinion of my legacy”.
Rousey’s UFC career, of course, ended with two straight losses and she didn’t speak after either fight. She basically hid from the public after both of those fights and then made the move to the WWE.
You can listen to Tate’s take on Rousey and her legacy right here:
Tate thinks the way Rousey went out weighs in on her unhappiness about her legacy:
“When I listen to this, she almost sounds emotional. I don’t think she’s entirely happy with her legacy,” Tate said. “The point that Ronda about us not deserving to hear it and about the vulnerability, I think it speaks again to point that she left the sport worse than she entered in.
“She has an inflated ego, she does have all of those things. I talk about myself and we’re polar opposites, that’s why we never really got along.”
“But she has a chance here to open up and to give some insight and perspective and motivation but she’s obviously not at that point where she feels good enough about her own legacy to be vulnerable and to reflect and give back. She’s obviously not in a good place with it.”
That’s some deep insights from Tate, who now works for One Championship in Singapore.
It would be interesting to hear what Rousey, who’s currently trying to start a family, thinks about that, but we probably never will.
Which is too bad.
