{"id":334747,"date":"2019-12-10T05:57:43","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T13:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=334747"},"modified":"2019-12-10T06:00:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T14:00:35","slug":"miesha-tate-makes-her-pick-for-the-goat-of-womens-mma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/one-championship\/miesha-tate-makes-her-pick-for-the-goat-of-womens-mma\/","title":{"rendered":"Miesha Tate makes her pick for the GOAT of women&#8217;s MMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who is the greatest female MMA fighter of all time? In the eyes of former UFC bantamweight champion Miesha Tate, who is one of the most accomplished female fighters ever herself, that&#8217;s &#8220;an easy pick&#8221; to make.<\/p>\n<p>In Tate&#8217;s eyes, there&#8217;s no question that the GOAT of women&#8217;s MMA is reigning UFC bantamweight and featherweight champion Amanda Nunes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, it\u2019s been Amanda Nunes,\u201d Tate told <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/12\/miesha-tate-ufc-245-who-think-female-goat-easy-pick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>. \u201cShe\u2019s just on another level. She\u2019s super legitimate. She hits like a ton of bricks. And it\u2019s just incredible what she\u2019s been able to do with the bantamweight division and what she\u2019s done dipping her toes in the featherweight division. Really, the way she took out Cyborg was so mind-blowing. It was very impressive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think for me that would be an easy pick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tate, of course, is well acquainted with Nunes. The pair fought at UFC 200 in July of 2016, with Tate&#8217;s bantamweight title on the line. In this fight, Nunes put forth a dominant performance, smashing Tate with punches and ultimately submitting her in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Nunes has defended the title against Ronda Rousey, Valentina Shevchenko, Raquel Penning, and most recently Holly Holm. She also moved up to the featherweight division, where she knocked out Cris Cyborg \u2014 who had not lost in over a decade \u2014 to add a second UFC belt to her mantle.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Tate, Rousey, Shevchenko, Cyborg and Holm are all frequently mentioned amongst the greatest female fighters ever, it should come as no surprise that Nunes, who has beaten all of them, is widely viewed as the best of greatest of all.<\/p>\n<p>Nunes will return to the cage this Saturday at UFC 245 in Las Vegas, where she&#8217;ll look to defend her bantamweight belt against former featherweight champ Germaine de Randamie.<\/p>\n<p>Tate is currently retired from competition, and is working as an executive and commentator for ONE Championship in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with Miesha Tate on this one? Is Amanda Nunes the GOAT?<\/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 12\/10\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is the greatest female MMA fighter of all time? In the eyes of former UFC bantamweight champion Miesha Tate, who is one of the most accomplished female fighters ever herself, that&#8217;s &#8220;an easy pick&#8221; to make. In Tate&#8217;s eyes, there&#8217;s no question that the GOAT of women&#8217;s MMA is reigning UFC bantamweight and featherweight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":281424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10274,10097,19776,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Miesha Tate makes her pick for the GOAT of women&#039;s MMA | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former UFC women&#039;s bantamweight champion and current ONE Championship executive makes her pick for the GOAT of women&#039;s MMA.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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