Former UFC girls’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate will return to the cage in Could.
‘Cupcake’ hasn’t been seen within the cage in nicely over a 12 months now. Miesha Tate final appeared in motion at UFC Austin in December 2023 towards Julia Avila. The bout was the fourth for the previous champion since ending her retirement in 2021, and she or he dominated. Tate wound up handing ‘Ragin Panda’ a third-round submission loss.
Now 38 years outdated, Miesha Tate has signed a deal to return to the cage. ‘Cupcake’ took to social media earlier at present, saying plans to face Yana Santos at UFC Des Moines in Could. As of now, the bout, nor the Iowa-based card have been introduced. Nonetheless, with a number of fights already linked to the cardboard, the occasion must be introduced quickly.
Nonetheless, Yana Santos is coming into her Could return off an enormous win of her personal. The previous UFC title challenger final appeared within the cage in August, towards Chelsea Chandler. Regardless of coming into the bout using a three-fight shedding streak, Santos wound up outpointing the Stockton native en path to a unanimous choice win.
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Miesha Tate proclaims she is going through Yana Santos on Could third. pic.twitter.com/lqfPZGavg3
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Miesha Tate proclaims battle towards Yana Santos for UFC Des Moines in Could
With each girls ranked at 135 kilos, Miesha Tate vs. Yana Santos is a crucial bout for the ladies’s bantamweight division. Nonetheless, the UFC Des Moines card at the moment has just a few different fights booked for it. The cardboard itself would be the promotion’s first journey to Iowa in almost 25 years, final going to the state in June 2000.
As of now, right here’s how the remainder of the UFC Des Moines occasion stacks up. It’s value noting that no important occasion for the cardboard is called of now.
Ladies’s Strawweight bout: Marina Rodriguez vs. Gillian Robertson
Featherweight bout: Trevor Peek vs. Lee Jeong-yeong
Bantamweight bout: Cameron Smotherman vs. Serhiy Sidey
Welterweight bout: Santiago Ponzinibbio vs. Daniel Rodriguez
Ladies’s Bantamweight bout: Miesha Tate vs. Yana Santos
What do you make of this UFC Des Moines battle announcement? Who do you’ve gotten profitable? Miesha Tate or Yana Santos?
