Top UFC women’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate has twice fought former champion Ronda Rousey. This picture sums up the thousands of words of trash talk.

Tate fights new champion Holly Holm at UFC 197 on March 5, 2016, and this one is different. Holm is described by everyone who knows her as the nicest person they know. Rousey is not. And Tate and Holm formed a friendship while shooting “Fight Valley.”

However, while being on good terms makes the weeks of promotional duties easier, Tate said that they plan to beat the $@!^ out of each other all the same.
“It’s refreshing and I think it is going to be interesting for the fans to see how much we like each other and still beat the s*** out of each other when the cage door closes,” said Tate during a recent appearance on Ariel Helwani’s The MMA Hour. “There is definitely going to be no holding back, there is not going to be any pulling of punches. We are going to let the leather fly regardless and that’s going to be exciting. So, for the people thinking that, ‘Oh, they like each other and it’s going to be a nice fight and boring.’ Think again. I am coming for that belt, and I don’t care how much I like someone. It is not going to affect the way I take the belt.”
‘Cupcake’ also said that stylistically, her wrestling/striking game is tougher for Holm than was Rousey’s Judo/boxing style. Thus she respect Holm all the more, for taking the tougher fight, rather than a rematch with someone she just got done crushing.
UFC 197 will be co-headlined by a UFC lightweight championship Rafael dos Anjos vs. featherweight champion Conor McGregor. This will be the second time in UFC history that current champions in different divisions fight for a title. The first time was then-UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St-Pierre vs. then-lightweight champion B.J. Penn at UFC 94 on January 31, 2009.





