LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – NOVEMBER 19: Miesha Tate poses on the dimensions in the course of the UFC Struggle Evening weigh-in at UFC APEX on November 19, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Picture by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)
Former UFC ladies’s bantamweight champion Miesha Tate has her return date set.
Tate (20-9) introduced on Monday that she is going to face Yana Santos (15-8, 1NC) at a UFC occasion on Might 3, 2025. Although not formally introduced by the promotion, the Struggle Evening card is predicted to happen in Des Moines, Iowa.
“I’ve still got what it takes and if you doubt me, please stick around,” Tate wrote on social media along with the announcement.
Miesha Tate has not been in motion since a December 2023 victory over Julia Avila. Coincidentally, Avila simply misplaced to Jacqueline Cavalcanti at UFC Vegas 102 over the weekend, with Cavalcanti calling for a battle with Tate. With “Cupcake” now booked in opposition to Santos, that must wait, nevertheless it reveals that the previous bantamweight champ stays related to a division that has nearly utterly turned over since her title win in 2016.
Tate is ranked #11 within the UFC ladies’s bantamweight division, and holds wins over Bellator champ and UFC title challenger Liz Carmouche, UFC title challengers Sara McMann and Jessica Eye, Strikeforce champ Marloes Coenen (to say that promotion’s bantamweight crown), and Holly Holm, who Tate defeated at UFC 196 to win gold within the UFC.
Yana Santos, previously Kunitskaya, is a former Invicta FC featherweight champ who as soon as challenged Cris Cyborg for the now-defunct ladies’s 145lb title within the UFC. She returned to bantamweight in 2018, after preventing within the weight class earlier in her profession, and has compiled a 7-4 file since. Santos, who’s married to former UFC mild heavyweight title challenger Thiago Santos, is ranked #10 within the ladies’s bantamweight division.
The UFC’s Might 3, 2025 Struggle Evening card presently options the next reported match-ups:
Marina Rodriguez vs. Gillian Robertson
Trevor Peek vs. Lee Jeong-yeong
Cameron Smotherman vs. Serhiy Sidey
Santiago Ponzinibbio vs. Daniel Rodriguez
Miesha Tate vs. Yana Santos
