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Video: Miesha Tate hopes that Sarah Kaufman beats Marloes Coenen
By Zach Arnold | August 15, 2010
MIESHA TATE: “This is like the best day of my life by far. I’m so excited, you know, I’m just like… ready to cry out there, you know.”
INTERVIEWER: “So, um, tell us about the first fight with Maiju (Kujala). Did you feel tired afterwards?”
MIESHA TATE: “No, I mean, I felt really good. You know, like Ryan (Couture) was saying, you look like you were getting tired. I think I didn’t get a really good warm-up because like I was told the whole time we were going to be the second fight and then like five minutes before they switched it and they’re like, no, you’re the first fight, I’m like… well, I’m not exactly ready, but I guess I’ll go, you know. So I felt a little bit of muscle pump up there and my lungs were ready.
“Yeah, I felt like the first fight was my warm-up because I mean I usually get really hard like blow my lungs warm-up just before I go out and then I just get enough time to lower my heart rate so I’m rested but I’m completely warm and I wasn’t quite like that my first fight but I felt great in the second one.”
INTERVIEWER: “It looked like Hitomi (Akano) had a knee bar on you in the first round, you know, were you at trouble at any time?”
MIESHA TATE: “She had a toe hold and there was definitely pressure, you know, but I mean there’s no way I was going to tap from it, you know, and I felt like I knew how to defend it well enough and that’s what I did and I’m just going to let her kind of expend her energy on it because I knew she wasn’t going to get it, so… I think it was the fact that I had her back the whole time. Every time we went to the ground she never had a good position on me, really, I mean she turned in a little bit but I was going straight for an arm bar and I think at the end of the first or second, so you know pretty much I established position and I felt like I was getting clean exchanges on the feet and being aggressive, so… Fair enough to say that maybe we’re equal on the feet and I felt like I was stronger on the ground.”
INTERVIEWER: “What are your thoughts on the guaranteed title shot at this point?”
MIESHA TATE: “Just… I, you know, that’s what I came here for and now, you know, all the hard work paid off and I’m just… I can’t wait. I’m ready. I mean, I’m just going to train even harder and be more ready. I learned a lot from this tournament, too, every time I fight you know I learned something else and I, uh… I’m looking forward to getting belt and looking forward to hopefully fighting Sarah Kaufman, hopefully she wins…”
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They changed her fight order 5 minutes before the fight? This Strikeforce!!
You beat me to it,…*I* was going to say the same thing.
Are they TRYING to make a mess of things at this point?…or are they really that clueless about the fact that the fighters have to warm up before a fight?
Don’t they know when they show those clips of the fighters backstage jumping rope or sparring that that is what they are doing? Warming up?
It’s not just for show to the fans watching.
Whose content is this you’re getting views off of?
I mainly ask so I can mock the interviewer who said “kneebar.”
Ed. — It’s from Strikeforce’s official feed.