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Anyone like me who had an early Saturday morning wake up (4:30am) and stayed up to watch the main was the real loser here...
the fight was pretty terrible, a past prime former champ who is basically an undersized and underpowered name, being pushed as some type of more evolved version of her previous mediocre self...
Pitted against a much larger, powerful, younger, more evolved generation of fighter that could’ve easily dispatched Tate. Yet Viera seems to be adverse to getting punched in the face, which prevents her from doing her best work, smashing opponents in the pocket.
The entire affair was fruitless to watch until the 5th round, I couldn’t imagine how frustrated Cordeiro was seeing the fight unfold, his fighter could’ve easily ended it in a few rounds. Actually may have ended it in the 5th is she would’ve continued working and pushing instead of getting on the bike in the last minute.
If the UFC truly wanted to push Tate to fight Nunez, they should’ve done a much better job of match making or cherry picking her road to a title... Viera was a horrible stylistic matchup for Tate.
the fight was pretty terrible, a past prime former champ who is basically an undersized and underpowered name, being pushed as some type of more evolved version of her previous mediocre self...
Pitted against a much larger, powerful, younger, more evolved generation of fighter that could’ve easily dispatched Tate. Yet Viera seems to be adverse to getting punched in the face, which prevents her from doing her best work, smashing opponents in the pocket.
The entire affair was fruitless to watch until the 5th round, I couldn’t imagine how frustrated Cordeiro was seeing the fight unfold, his fighter could’ve easily ended it in a few rounds. Actually may have ended it in the 5th is she would’ve continued working and pushing instead of getting on the bike in the last minute.
If the UFC truly wanted to push Tate to fight Nunez, they should’ve done a much better job of match making or cherry picking her road to a title... Viera was a horrible stylistic matchup for Tate.
