Given that she’s fought Ronda Rousey twice and Amanda Nunes once, recently retired UFC star Miesha Tate is the perfect analyst to assess how the title fight between those two will go this evening at UFC 207 in Las Vegas.
Tate appeared as part of the panel for the latest episode of ‘Undisputed’ on FOX Sports 1 alongside Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpe, where she indicated that Rousey’s decision to not do any media during fight week is a red flag.
“It makes you wonder where her head is at,” Tate said. “Is she laser focused or is she struggling? Is she struggling with everything she feels she has to do? Does she really want to be there?
“Cause I kind of feel like you don’t want to forget what got you where you’re at and that’s the media covering her. So now she’s refusing to do any of it. Well, where is this girl’s head at? What is she thinking? What’s going through her brain?”
Tate is speaking from experience as she hung up her own gloves in the Octagon last month after coming to the conclusion that her heart wasn’t in fighting anymore.
The former bantamweight champion has now been brought on-board by FOX as an analyst and she’s predicting that Nunes will emerge victorious tonight.
“I do honestly, I do,” Tate said when asked if Nunes would defeat Rousey. “I think if one of those right hands lands…unless really everything goes her way and she gets that clinch, gets it down quick and gets it over.
“Ronda has the ability to finish anybody. So she could do it. I’m not counting her out but I am saying if push comes to shove, I just don’t know if her heart’s really in it anymore. Amanda’s (heart) is. She’s in it. She’s in it to win it.”
Watch Tate’s full interview on Undisputed below.
