{"id":401931,"date":"2021-12-17T01:49:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T09:49:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=401931"},"modified":"2021-12-17T01:49:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T09:49:15","slug":"miesha-tate-considering-drop-to-flyweight-following-julianna-penas-title-win-at-ufc-269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/miesha-tate-considering-drop-to-flyweight-following-julianna-penas-title-win-at-ufc-269\/","title":{"rendered":"Miesha Tate considering drop to flyweight following Julianna Pena\u2019s title win at UFC 269"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/miesha-tate-reflects-on-loss-to-ketlen-vieira-at-ufc-vegas-43-i-dont-have-any-regrets\/\">UFC star<\/a> Miesha Tate is contemplating a shift down to flyweight after Julianna Pena&#8217;s big win at UFC 269 last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>In front of a stunned Las Vegas crowd, Julianna Pena submitted Amanda Nunes to become the new UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion. There were scenes of jubilation from fans and fellow fighters alike, which included Miesha Tate celebrating in the front row at the T-Mobile Arena.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2013, Julianna Pena was part of Team Tate during the 18th season of The Ultimate Fighter. Pena managed to win the tournament as the #1 seed and now, she&#8217;s the undisputed champion of the world.<\/p>\n<p>In response to seeing it all go down, Tate has questioned whether or not a flyweight move would be the right step forward for her own career.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Miesha Tate ponders drop to 125 after Julianna Pe\u00f1a&#039;s title win, brushes off Aspen Ladd\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q1LB1GcEQqE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI need to get in the win column again so I will probably fight in March, probably is what I\u2019m looking at. I don\u2019t want to fight Julie because I\u2019ve rooted for so long for her to get there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cA lot can change between now and then, so I have to win and do my job so I think what really I\u2019ve got to do is win and focus on that. If Julie\u2019s still the champion by the time that I get there, then I think that\u2019s a conversation we have at that time. I\u2019ve probably got to get two wins until I\u2019m looking at a championship fight, at least, so I\u2019ve got to focus on me and I\u2019m going to continue to cheer on Julie and pray that we don\u2019t ever have to fight each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI know that Julianna can make 125 and I can make 125. There\u2019s also those things too. It\u2019s not out of the question for either of us to go hunting Valentina (Shevchenko) at some point. There\u2019s lots of dynamics. I know she really wants that fight too so we\u2019d have to see what happens if everything continues to play out in that direction, there\u2019s always that possibility of us going to 125 for either of us too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Quotes via <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2021\/12\/ufc-news-miesha-tate-ponders-drop-flyweight-after-julianna-pena-title-win-amanda-nunes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Junkie<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Do you think Miesha Tate will shift down to flyweight? Let us know your thoughts in the comments, BJPENN Nation!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC star Miesha Tate is contemplating a shift down to flyweight after Julianna Pena&#8217;s big win at UFC 269 last weekend. In front of a stunned Las Vegas crowd, Julianna Pena submitted Amanda Nunes to become the new UFC women&#8217;s bantamweight champion. There were scenes of jubilation from fans and fellow fighters alike, which included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":386783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10411,10097,39610],"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 considering drop to flyweight following Julianna Pena\u2019s win<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC star Miesha Tate is contemplating a shift down to flyweight after Julianna Pena&#039;s big win at UFC 269 last weekend.\" \/>\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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