Rumor has it that former UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey will be back on the octagon to reclaim her title from Miesha Tate and will retire after.
Tate recently spoke about the rumors about Rowdy's confidence to beat her and become the last person she will fight and will seal her UFC legacy.
"I don't know if that's true or not, but I have heard that. If it is true, I find it disrespectful," Tate said during an appearance at the UFC Fight Pass.
Although she lost to Rousey twice, the bantamweight champion knows that she can beat her greatest rival and she hopes a third fight between them will happen soon.
"I hope that we can fight each other down the road because I want to prove to the world that I can beat Ronda Rousey," Tate declared with confidence that the match ends with Rousey's second loss in her once-untainted record.
While Tate badly wants to fight and defeat Rousey, she does not believe that her greatest rival, who trounced her twice, isn't in the right condition to do so.
"Do I think she'll come back the same? Something tells me no," the bantamweight champion said. "I feel like she's somewhere else other than fighting. I don't feel like this is her No. 1 drive anymore," she went on to say.
Tate believes that she is in her prime, an advantage she will have over Rousey that could be at play when they meet again for the third time.
Rousey is expected to fight whoever remains the bantamweight champion early next year. It might be Tate or Amanda Nunes, depending on how their showdown at UFC 200 next month ends.
Meanwhile, UFC commentator Joe Rogan gave his two cents on why Rousey's head isn't in the fight game. He believes that her Hollywood commitments got the best of her.
"She was crushing all these contenders, then all of a sudden all these movie deals start coming out. Books start getting written, TV show appearances, and all these traps they steal your focus away from fighting," Rogan said on his podcast.
"Like 'I'm good enough to get by without all that focus,' but there's no way because your opponent doesn't have all those traps, they have an advantage," he added.
