White: ‘It sucks for Miesha’


Miesha Tate has been in headlines quite a bit lately due to her comments in regards to potentially retiring after being snubbed for a title shot.

UFC President Dana White has been quite quiet in regards to the situation, until now.

He spoke to Yahoo Sports about promising Tate a title shot, and then giving the shot to Holm.

“I know what I said, but when I sat down and started to think about it carefully, I asked myself, ‘What fight would people really want to see the most?’ Before we signed Holly, you guys [in the media] were blowing up my phone, asking me when we were going to get her in the UFC. Everyone on Twitter was killing me about it.

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“And Holly’s come in and won a couple of fights since she’s been in the UFC. Everyone has already seen Ronda and Miesha twice. I want to give the fans the best possible event, and what they want to see, and when I really thought about, it made more sense to go with Holly.”

White paused for several seconds.

“And I know. It sucks for Miesha,”

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