Miesha Tate not closing door on MMA return, wants to grapple Cris Cyborg

Former UFC women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate is 34-years-old, and busy. Since retiring from fighting she has given birth to two children, co-hosts a weekly show on SiriusXM Radio, and is a Vice President, brand ambassador, and color commentator for ONE Championship. During a recent interview with James Lynch for Fanatics View, “Cupcake” said she hadn’t ruled out fighting again, would like to grapple Cris Cyborg, and more.

I have six [fights left on my UFC contract], said Tate. So if I wanted to fight, which I’m not, I wouldn’t be able to fight anywhere else. So you wouldn’t see me pop up and fight for ONE Championship or anybody else because obviously, I can’t legally do that. I would like to grapple, and you know, [Cris] Cyborg did call me out to a grappling match. That piques my interest.

It would be amazing. I think if we want to make it happen we definitely have to figure out the legalities of it, because my fight contract is owned by the UFC, right? She fights for Bellator, and I work [for] and represent ONE Championship.

Right now I’m just focused on having fun. This is something I wasn’t able to do in the latter part of my career. The last couple years of my career were really strenuous and a lot of that had to do with my personal life. I wasn’t having fun, I was exhausted, to be honest. Mentally exhausted before I even got to the fights. Some I was able to really bring it, and other ones I wasn’t. But I want to compete again, I want to grapple, and I want to get in great shape and I want to have fun and that’s what I’m doing.

Nothing is ever completely closed in my book. I am somebody who follows my heart and I follow my passion, and that could change at a moment’s notice. I am the kind of person who – I’m kind of all over the place, to be honest. Not kind of, I am. I am all over the place. I picked up in less than six months and moved my whole family to Singapore at the drop of a hat. That’s who I am. If something speaks to me, speaks to my heart, then I’m all in.

h/t Jed Meshew for MMA Fighting