{"id":279513,"date":"2018-06-28T06:17:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T13:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=279513"},"modified":"2018-06-28T06:17:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T13:17:55","slug":"miesha-tate-says-comeback-is-possible-but-doubts-itll-ever-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/miesha-tate\/miesha-tate-says-comeback-is-possible-but-doubts-itll-ever-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Miesha Tate says comeback is possible, but doubts it&#8217;ll ever happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate, who retired in the cage after a November, 2016 decision loss to future title challenger Raquel Pennington, says the door on her fighting career is not 100% closed. That said, the former champ and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/miesha-tate\/former-ufc-bantamweight-champion-miesha-tate-is-now-a-mother\/\">new Mom<\/a> doesn&#8217;t expect to ever compete again.\u00a0She explained why on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MMAonSiriusXM\/status\/1012125782611779584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Tonight on SiriusXM Rush.<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"p9Nefx\">\u201cI\u2019m open ended in every part of my life,\u201d Tate said (transcribed by Jed Meshew for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2018\/6\/28\/17512318\/morning-report-miesha-tate-has-no-plans-to-come-back-to-mma-i-dont-feel-like-im-missing-something\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Fighting<\/a>). \u201cThere\u2019s never a time where I really think that a door is 100% closed because there was a time where if somebody would have asked me if I want kids, I would have said \u2018I don\u2019t think so. I don\u2019t think I want kids.\u2019<\/p>\n<p id=\"JLqlKn\">\u201cDifferent times of your life evoke different emotions and if the passion returns and the stars aligned, sure there\u2019s a chance [I\u2019d come back], but when I think about it now, I don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m missing something,&#8221; Tate added. &#8220;[I have a daughter now], and she\u2019s obviously my number one priority and my number one objective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"3xD4Ev\">\u201cWith everything being considered, I don\u2019t think [coming back] is the route that I\u2019m gonna go. But life is crazy. I didn\u2019t think that I would be with such a wonderful man now, and a mother, and I didn\u2019t know I was going to retire when I retired. I very much live by the way my heart tells me to go and when I retired I knew that my heart was telling me this was no longer an option for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, it sounds unlikely Miesha Tate will join the likes of Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz in the pool of fighters to end their retirements and return to competition. Time will tell if recent retirees Michael Bisping, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/rashad-evans\/breaking-former-ufc-light-heavyweight-champion-rashad-evans-announces-retirement-from-mma\/\">Rashad Evans<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/johny-hendricks\/johny-hendricks-calls-it-a-career-im-done-im-retiring\/\">Johny Hendricks<\/a> stick to their retirement plans.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think we&#8217;ll ever see Miesha Tate fight again?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPenn.com<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 6\/27\/2018. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate, who retired in the cage after a November, 2016 decision loss to future title challenger Raquel Pennington, says the door on her fighting career is not 100% closed. 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