Former UFC bantamweight champion Miesha Tate is returning to the octagon. But according to UFC President Dana White, her situation is a lot different from two other stars who retired when they were stars: Tate’s longtime foil and ex-champ Ronda Rousey and Khabib Nurmagomedov.
The topic of retirement was broached several times at the press conference for UFC 260 – White hadn’t publicly weighed in on the confirmation of Nurmagomedov’s retirement or Tate’s recent comeback announcement.
The UFC exec’s default position – one that’s backed up by decades of evidence in a business where fortunes quickly rise and fall – is that fighters come out of retirement when they need money.