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Cat Zingano and Miesha Tate are key pieces to the start of the UFC’s introduction to the women. Nearly a decade later and they’re both still competing – just under different roofs.
While Zingano prepares to compete this Friday night, Tate is set to return to the UFC in July after a five-year retirement. In that time, Tate took up a position as a ONE Championship Vice President and according to Zingano, a potential grappler.
“I get it, MMA is a love-hate sport,” Cat Zingano told ESPN regarding Tate coming out of retirement. “Some days you just don’t want to do this but you get away from it for 10 minutes and you miss it. It’s very deep in your soul to want to be an MMA fighter. So for her to want to come back, I think it makes sense, I’m not surprised.
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Bellator women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg says she’s willing to fight Cat Zingano if Scott Coker asks her.
After she scored back-to-back dominant victories over Julia Budd and Arlene Blencowe in her first two Bellator fights, it’s becoming hard to find challengers for Cyborg. But one name floating around is Zingano. Both Cyborg and Zingano were big stars in the UFC at one point in time, and now both of them are on the Bellator roster at 145lbs. It seems natural to think this fight could happen in the Bellator cage, and it’s possible we might actually see it in 2021.
Image: Cris Cyborg on Instagram
Bellator women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg teased her fans on social media that she has “big news soon” as Bellator heads into 2021.
Taking to her social media ahead of the new year, Cyborg teased her fans that she has big news coming soon, all while tagging Bellator in the post, indicating a fight announcement. Check out what the Brazilian wrote on her social media below.
https://twitter.com/criscyborg/status/1344002444812939264
Big News Soon 2021 New Year New Goals. @BellatorMMA
Cyborg had a great 2020 that has gone a bit overlooked by most fans because she is no longer in the UFC. In January, Cyborg won the Bellator women’s featherweight championship when she defeated Julia Budd via fourth-round TKO. Cyborg then returned to the Bellator cage in October when she defeated Arlene Blencowe via second-round submission. Considering COVID-19 threw Bellator’s schedule out of whack, the fact Cyborg got in two fights and won them both