Miesha Tate addresses criticisms she gave Ronda Rousey regarding ESPN the Magazine's Body Issue

By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

Miesha Tate caught flack on Tuesday from some fans after news broke that she would appear nude in this year's edition of ESPN the Magazine's "Body Issue." She had criticized rival Ronda Rousey for appearing in the same magazine last year, but her comments on Rousey were misconstrued by those now criticizing her.

So Tate took to Twitter to give the actual quote she made about Rousey last year, along with a link to the interview:

"Since some of you have trouble remembering my actual quotes about Ronda being in the Body Issue, here it is for you with a link to the interview," Tate wrote, posting the following:

"I just get so tired of Ronda criticizing everyone else. I think we should just all live our lives and I don't really care what she does or what anyone else does. It's not our place to judge. I'm just sick of hearing her mouth off about other girls this and that, and Kim that, the Playboy girls this. I'm just like 'just shut up.' To me it's so stupid that you would talk crap about ring girls doing Playboy, which that's kind of what their appeal is - it's a sex appeal. For an athlete, there's no real reason to have to get nude, although I think there's nothing wrong with ESPN. I don't think what Ronda did was wrong. I'm just saying it's not okay to talk crap about the ring girls and then get 1 percent less naked, and say it's okay. To me it kind of falls in that hypocrisy."

Tate and Rousey will coach the next season of The Ultimate Fighter, and will face off for a second time later this year.

Penick's Analysis: Tate had a point last year regarding Rousey's hypocritical appearance nude given her previous comments, but she wasn't critical of the appearance itself. And there really isn't anything wrong with either of them appearing in the magazine. They're being joined by sports stars from around the athletic spectrum, and though the sex appeal aspect gets played up too much at times for certain female fighters, they're still taken seriously as competitors as it is.

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