The world of mixed martial arts today is a huge machine that operates across the planet, in the work of which the best athletes from all countries are involved. To maximize the popularity of these fights by many promotions, it was decided to allow women to fight. How correct this is is a question for discussion that can make many supporters and opponents of women's fights argue. We will only ascertain the fact that among the fairer sex there are real stars who deserve love from the public. One such famous and outstanding champion will be discussed in this article. Her name is Tate Misha.
Birth
The current UFC champion was born on August 18, 1986 in the city of Tacoma, located in Washington, USA. Already in the sixth grade, she began her sports career, as she was an extremely active child. Her desire to compete and be the best ensured tremendous ability to work and striving for a goal.
Amateur sport
At the age of fifteen, Tate Misha began to train in the freestyle wrestling section , and initially she came there for the company with her friend. For a long period of time, the American trained together with the guys, and all because the women's team in this sport then simply did not exist. Training in the women's league became possible only after two years. Then the first time was held and the women's state wrestling championship. Tate Misha did not get into those competitions, because she was seriously injured. But a year later she won this tournament and was named fans of “Takedown”.
A year later, she became a student at Central Washington University. In it, she continued to actively engage in mixed martial arts. Her trainer was Brian Caraway. From the very first trainings, the girl showed remarkable interest in Brazilian jujitsu and grappling.
March 26, 2006, the athlete fought for the first time according to the rules of MMA and was defeated.
Career in the pros
This loss did not let the American relax, and after 20 months she was again in the octagon. This time, Tate Misha performed as a professional in a one-day tournament held under the auspices of Hook-N-Shoot and Bodog Fight. It took place on November 24, 2007 in Indiana, the city of Evansville. She won her first fight, but in the second, unfortunately, she lost, because she lacked functional training.
This start motivated the girl to train even harder, and in the next 12 matches she won 11 times. Twice she managed to become the best in the Freestyle Cage Fighting tournament, to take the country's championship in 2008 in grappling and silver in the world championship in the same kind of martial arts.
First title
In July 2011, Tate Misha, whose photo is shown below, met in a cage with Marlos Kunen. This fight was held under the auspices of the now-sunken Strikeforce promotion. The fight ended in favor of Tate, and she became the champion of the organization, which allowed her to appear in the world of MMA as one of the best female fighters. But already in the next match, she met with Queen Ambarov Ronda Rousey and lost to her by a painful hand.
Transition to UFC
In April 2013, Tate Misha (her biography is worthy of respect), after a long pause in performances, held her first fight against Kat Zingano. The result of the battle for Tate was extremely unsuccessful: she was knocked out. After this fight, Zingano was supposed to become the coach of the 18th season of The Ultimate Fighter, but was injured and out of action. It was Tate in this situation who took her place and began to prepare for a rematch with Rosie, whom she subsequently lost again.
But, despite all the setbacks, on March 5, 2016, Misha nevertheless achieved what she wanted and became the UFC champion, defeating Holly Holm by strangulation. At the moment, Tate is the current champion.