Miesha Tate had a simple goal at
the start of her UFC on Fox 11 main card bout against Liz Carmouche on
Saturday night. "I was just trying not to be a psycho in the fight," she
said.
Tate has
become one of the main faces of female UFC fighters but had yet to earn a
victory in the Octagon heading into Saturday night. In her first UFC
fight, Tate lost a great battle to Cat Zingano.
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Miesha Tate, left, unloads with a Superman punch on Liz Carmouche (AP Photo/Reinhold Matay)
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Next, she rematched (they first
fought in Strikeforce) her nemesis and UFC champ Ronda Rousey and lost
via arm bar once more. Tate believed that she had perhaps spent herself
too quickly in prior fights on account of fighting too emotionally.
Against
Carmouche, Tate wanted to "be a little bit more calculated," as she
said at the UFC on Fox 11 post fight press conference.
That
may have resulted in a slow start for Tate, however, as Carmouche got
her down early and dominated the first round. Tate rode out the storm
and earned the unanimous decision and her first UFC 'W' after three
rounds, though, and beat back some demons in the process.
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