{"id":185743,"date":"2016-02-11T08:14:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T16:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=185743"},"modified":"2016-02-11T08:14:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T16:14:33","slug":"miesha-tate-explains-how-ronda-rousey-mentally-beat-herself-against-holly-holm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/miesha-tate\/miesha-tate-explains-how-ronda-rousey-mentally-beat-herself-against-holly-holm\/","title":{"rendered":"Miesha Tate explains how Ronda Rousey &#8220;mentally beat herself&#8221; against Holly Holm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At UFC 194 Holly Holm put on a nearly flawless performance against Ronda Rousey topped off with a <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/replay-holm-knocks-out-rousey-becomes-ufc-champion\/\">2nd round KO<\/a> to claim the UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight championship. <\/p>\n<p>While the UFC brass would have liked Holm and Rousey to have their highly anticipated <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/lorenzo-fertitta-discusses-holm-vs-rousey-rematch-at-ufc-2002\/\">rematch at UFC 200<\/a> in July, Rousey&#8217;s busy film schedule won&#8217;t give her <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/white-ufc-200-would-be-cutting-it-too-close-for-rousey\/\">enough time to prepare<\/a> for a fight at UFC 200, let alone the biggest fight of her career.<\/p>\n<p>Instead the UFC booked Miesha <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/confirmed-holly-holm-vs-miesha-tate-official\/\">Tate to fight Holly<\/a> Holm at UFC 197, which then became UFC 196 on March 5th.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of her fight with Holm, Tate spoke to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/ufc\/story\/ufc-miesha-tate-ronda-rousey-was-the-bull-holly-holm-was-the-matador-021016\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Sports<\/a> to discuss why she believes Rousey beat herself before her fight with Holm.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I think Ronda went into that fight with Holly thinking, &#8216;If I don&#8217;t finish this girl in under two minutes, I&#8217;m already a failure,&#8217; and she went in there with such desperation to get a quick finish. 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