Miesha Tate – the total package
Jon Lane of HeavyMMA.com explores the total package that is Miesha Tate:
Miesha Tate’s introduction to Mixed Martial Arts was a one-night-only tournament in Evansville, Ind., the HOOKnSHOOT – BodogFIGHT 2007 Women’s Grand Prix. Her first opponent was Jan Finney, a rugged competitor desperate to snap a three-fight losing streak. For Tate this was the payoff for competing among boys on her high school wrestling team, and in 2005 winning the women’s Washington state championship and nationals at the World Team Trials at 158 pounds. Two years after joining an MMA club at Central Washington University run by her future trainer and boyfriend, WEC featherweight Bryan Caraway, her total athletic skills and mental capacity were about to be put through a gauntlet.
Little did Tate realize her body would be mistreated and emotions played like a yo-yo. It was bad enough she cut too much weight. Finney pushed her for three full, hard rounds, but Tate figured she had done enough to advance. Instead, the judges, working a show not sanctioned by an athletic commission, were more indecisive than a hung jury. The fighters were forced to compete in a fourth round. The three at ringside, still undecided, named Tate the winner, and Tate retreated to the locker room to cool down and ice a leg smarting from Finney’s kicks.
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