Veteran UFC fighter Miesha Tate has accused Ronda Rousey of being a bully with a rotten attitude.
Tate, who has 30 professional MMA bouts under her belt, fought Rousey twice during her career, before and after coaching alongside the women’s MMA pioneer on The Ultimate Fighter (TUF).
The pair’s rivalry sprouted from their first meeting under the Strikeforce banner in 2012, when Rousey submitted Tate in the first round.
Both women then signed with the UFC the following year before continuing their feud on TUF 18, the first season of the reality TV show with female coaches.
Having already contested the UFC’s first-ever female fight ahead of her meeting with Tate, Rousey was arguably the biggest name in combat sports at the time and adored by fans around the world.
But it seems, according to Tate, that the love wasn’t quite returned in the same fashion.
Miesha Tate: Ronda Rousey was ‘rude’ with a ‘spoilt little girl’ attitude
“It was real beef, and the fans saw most of it, because it happened publicly,” Tate told the Jaxxon podcast, discussing her rivalry with Rousey on TUF.
Tate then asserted she couldn’t stand the UFC champion at the time.
“The things that people didn’t see, though, on The Ultimate Fighter, there was definitely [hatred],” she explained.
“Because they clipped that up so much, and there’s only such a small bit of what you would actually see.
“I expected her to be all pissy towards me and everything, and I was like, ‘I’m fine with that because we’re going to punch each other in the face at the end of the day.’
“But what people didn’t get to see is how rude she was to the people behind the camera, the producers, those kinds of people who she knew she could be a d***head to.
Rousey, at the time, was the biggest female fighter in the world, having been one-half of the UFC’s first female fightGetty Tate said ‘Rowdy’ treated staff very poorly when they both coached on TUF 18Getty“It was like the spoiled little girl in the family, the youngest, and she’s a girl, and the older brother just has to deal with all her s***.
“It was kind of like that kind of attitude except she was a bully, too.”
Rousey was victorious in the female bracket of TUF 18, as Julianna Pena, who went on to become a UFC champion, stopped Jessica Rakoczy in the finale.
Tate, meanwhile, triumphed on the men’s side of things, as Chris Holdsworth submitted Rousey’s fighter, Davey Grant, in the finale.
The pair then fought in the co-main event of UFC 168 in December 2013, with Rousey submitting Tate via an armbar in the first round.
Rousey went on to defend the women’s bantamweight title four times more before dropping it to Holly Holm and losing to Amanda Nunes in her final UFC fight.
Rousey and Tate shared one of the most famous rivalries in women’s MMA historyGettyTate, on the other hand, won her next four fights in Dana White‘s promotion before claiming Rousey’s old title by defeating Holm.
The 39-year-old made it back-to-back defeats after suffering a unanimous decision defeat to Raquel Pennington on the same card Conor McGregor famously knocked out Eddie Alvarez.
‘Cupcake’ then announced her retirement from MMA at the end of 2016 and remained sidelined for over five years until her return in November 2021.
She has won two of her five bouts in her second UFC stint, with her last outing ending in a unanimous decision defeat to Yana Santos in May.
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