As the fifth round approached in the women’s bantamweight title clash between Holly Holm and Miesha Tate at UFC 196, the challenger’s corner didn’t bother sugarcoating the situation.
Robert Follis, Tate’s MMA coach at Xtreme Couture, knew that Tate had likely lost three of the first four frames on the judges’ scorecards. With that in mind, it was imperative that he and UFC bantamweight Bryan Caraway instilled the proper sense of urgency in the ex-Strikeforce titlist heading into the bout’s final five minutes.
“The assumption that we had, and Brian and I talked about it just as the fourth was ending, was, ‘Hey, the technical advice time (is over).