Misha Tate does not want to play against Pena for the time being and may be downgraded to the flyweight development

Former UFC women's welterweight champion Miesha Tate just lost to Ketlen Vieira in points last month, while julianna Pena upset amanda Nunes as the new UFC women's welterweight champion in the just-concluded UFC 269 tournament. In a recent interview about Pena's victory, Tate said that he would not consider challenging Pena for the time being, and even planned to downgrade to the flyweight.

Tate said: "It definitely changed the whole landscape of the level, I think it will be a second game between Nunez and Pena, all the indications are that it will be the next game, I think Pena will win the game again, especially since she has already beaten Nunez once." I'm sure Pena will definitely win again, maybe the second time it will be easier. I need to be in the winner's line so I'll probably be in March, which is what I'm looking forward to and I don't want to play with Pena because I've supported her for a long time.

A lot of things can change from now on, so I have to win the game and do my job well, so I think I need to win and focus on that. If Pena is still the champion after that, I want to discuss the conversation between us at that time. I'm probably going to have two more games to win, so I'm going to focus on myself and I'm going to keep cheering for Pena and praying we'll never play against each other.

I know Pena can go down to 125 pounds ( flyweight) and I can go down to flyweight, and there's this sort of thing, and for any of us, at some point against Valentina Shevchenko, there's a lot of factors and I know she's going to want to play, so we'll see how it goes next, and we'll both have the possibility of going to flyweight.

I don't want people to think I'm escaping the chick scale, I need more time to get used to it all, downgrading to fly scale is a long process and I keep saying I don't like drastic weight loss so I might do something to change my body to reach the target weight. I'm definitely an option, I'd be more inclined to the order of magnitude, but changing levels isn't impossible either.

Nunez realized that Pena would not give up, that they would play no matter where the game was, and that Nunez would lose the will to win. Pena knew Nunez would fight her back, and tonight we were on par, Núñez recognized that, and once she realized it, Núñez's aura was gone for Pena. Pena didn't believe how great Nunez was, didn't believe that Núñez would ko her with his right fist, didn't think Núñez was stronger than she was. When Nunez also realized this, Nunez's spirit collapsed. Pena is bigger, Nunez may be more technically well-rounded, you might say Nuñez is stronger, but it's not mentality, will, desire, inferiority, because Pena is indeed one of the hard-working female players. ”

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