{"id":145017,"date":"2015-05-21T11:58:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T18:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=145017"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:17:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:17:54","slug":"tate-im-losing-90-ufcs-reebok-deal-unfair-to-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/tate-im-losing-90-ufcs-reebok-deal-unfair-to-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Tate: ‘I’m Losing 90%, UFC’s Reebok Deal Unfair To Women’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Perennial UFC title contender Miesha Tate is one of the first high-profile women to speak up about how the Reebok deal will be damaging her paychecks. Much like Gegard Mousasi<\/a> and Brendan Schaub<\/a>, “Cupcake” will be taking a major hit as well.<\/p>\n

“Honestly, I\u2019m not that excited about the numbers,” Tate revealed. “I\u2019m taking a big loss on my sponsorship dollars, so I\u2019m definitely going to be making nowhere near as much.”<\/p>\n

Miesha Tate is one of the longest tenured women to be fighting inside the octagon, but will still only be making $5,000 because the women were only first allowed to fight for the UFC since 2013. Even then, there still aren’t many woman fights on the card. “I probably have the most fights (among the female fighters) because of Strikeforce, and I\u2019m still only on the second tier, so I get 5000 dollars,” she exclaimed. “So I\u2019m losing probably 90% or like 80% of what I make in sponsorships, so that hurts.”<\/p>\n

“I think it\u2019s a little bit unfair for Women\u2019s Mixed Martial Arts because we\u2019ve barely been in the UFC very long,” she said. “We don\u2019t have the same number of fights as the guys do, because they wouldn\u2019t let us in forever, you know?”<\/p>\n

Tate expressed her displeasure with the fact that the payout is based on tenure with the company. Tate has been in many wars with women throughout her Strikeforce and UFC career, but men like Guida are given more opportunities to jump in fights on short notice. “The UFC has been around a long time, but Women\u2019s MMA in the UFC has been there for a little over two years so it\u2019s not fair,” Tate said. “There are guys like Clay Guida and Cowboy Cerrone, they\u2019ve been fighting for the UFC for a long time so they\u2019re going to have more fights because they\u2019re men and they\u2019re allowed to fight in the UFC for a long time. The women have not had the same opportunity.”<\/p>\n

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