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Las Vegan Miesha Tate wasn’t astir to fto an unfavorable determination oregon a look covered successful humor instrumentality distant from her enjoyment of the infinitesimal Saturday.
“I had fun,” the erstwhile women’s bantamweight champion said aft losing a constrictive unanimous determination to Ketlen Vieira successful the main lawsuit of UFC Fight Night 198 astatine the Apex. “When I came back, I said that’s the No. 1 priority. I conscionable privation my communicative to beryllium a quality story. The existent happening is astir enjoying the journey. I get to spell location and buss my 2 kids. Life is great.”
The combat was Tate’s 2nd since she came retired of a four-plus twelvemonth status and bushed Marion Reneau successful July. This 1 didn’t spell arsenic smoothly.
Tate was a interaction down Vieira successful the striking exchanges, but she had her moments. She yet secured a takedown successful the 4th round, but Vieira rapidly got backmost to her feet.
Though the 48-47, 48-47 49-46 scorecards were close, they weren’t controversial.
“I thought it was truly close, but I conscionable wasn’t sure,” Tate said. “I conscionable did my champion tonight, and hats disconnected to her. She’s awesome.”
Vieira was expected to power the striking exchanges, but she often had trouble opening up her discourtesy aboriginal successful the fight. She said she mightiness person been showing excessively overmuch respect to Tate’s takedown ability.
“She was a champion, and I’ll beryllium a champion 1 day,” said Vieira, who expressed a tendency to enactment successful Las Vegas and bid with Tate. “Miesha is simply a large opponent, and that made maine a small hesitant astatine first, but that’s what I’m present for. I’m present to combat the best.
“She’s 1 of the champion fighters successful the world, and she was mounting up takedowns the full time. I didn’t privation to get taken down, but I started to get much comfy the past mates rounds. I privation I felt similar that earlier.”
Also connected the card, rising welterweight contender Sean Brady scored his biggest triumph with a unanimous determination implicit Michael Chiesa.
Brady improved to 15-0 arsenic a pro and 5-0 successful the UFC by getting Chiesa to the crushed successful each 3 rounds and controlling position, past surviving a precocious Chiesa rally.
“All week I was saying however overmuch the unit wasn’t getting to me, but it was getting to me,” Brady said. “All the media and the cameras, it was a large deal. But I deliberation I proved I beryllium here. I don’t deliberation anyone’s ever done that to Michael. I deliberation I’m the champion grappler successful the division, and helium was different 1 of them truthful I had to beryllium it.
“This is conscionable what I do, and I’m the champion astatine it.”
Las Vegan Joanne Wood was submitted by Talia Santos successful the archetypal circular of a women’s flyweight contender bout.
It was the archetypal combat since marrying her coach, John Wood, past period for the erstwhile Joanne Calderwood. She has mislaid her past 2 bouts, and Santos has won 4 straight.
Santos was the lone combatant to grounds a decorativeness connected the card, arsenic the different 10 fights went to the scorecards.
Contact Adam Hill astatine ahill@reviewjournal.com. Follow @AdamHillLVRJ connected Twitter.
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