UFC women’s bantamweight champ Miesha Tate has heard Ronda Rousey is coming back, but not for long, and not for reasons that are very flattering to her.

“Some people have been saying that she’s said, ‘I’ll come back for one fight against Miesha Tate because I know that I can beat her, and then I’m retiring,'” Tate said on “The Exchange” on UFC Fight Pass. “That she doesn’t want to fight Holly (Holm). I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I have heard that. If it is true, I find it disrespectful.”

Tate (18-5 MMA, 5-2 UFC), who makes her first title defense at UFC 200 opposite Amanda Nunes (11-4 MMA, 4-1 UFC), was asked about the feedback she encountered after upsetting Holm (10-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) at UFC 196, a fight that was supposed to set up a rematch between Holm and Rousey (10-1 MMA, 6-1 UFC) after Holm’s knockout upset of the ex-champ this past fall.

Tate said she wasn’t surprised that the public pushed for a third fight with Rousey, a rivalry she said is one of the greatest in the sport’s history. But as before, she voiced skepticism about whether Rousey was in the right frame of mind to return to the cage.

“Do I think she’ll come back the same? Something tells me no,” said Tate, who faces Nunes on the pay-per-view main card of UFC 200 at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena. “I think that’s just my take on the interviews I’ve seen her do. I feel like she’s somewhere else other than fighting. I don’t feel like this is her No. 1 drive anymore.”

Because hearsay was the only thing that informed her knowledge of Rousey’s current plans, Tate wasn’t comfortable with predicting their future. But as you’d expect, she welcomed a third fight with her rival.

That remains on her UFC bucket list.

“I hope that we can fight each other down the road because I want to prove to the world that I can beat Ronda Rousey,” Tate said.

Asked how a third fight would be different after Rousey’s pair of armbar victories, Tate said, “It’s really simple: I’ll win.”

She added: “I don’t know how; I don’t know exactly what I’m going to do. But I know that I am the strongest that I’ve ever been. And here I stand at the best moment of my career, the most confident that I’ve ever been, the best version of Miesha Tate, and she’s at the worst. She’s at the lowest point of her career.

“I think she’s second-guessing whether she even wants to be in it. Even talking about retirement or contemplating that, saying she’s only going to come back for one fight, I would expect things like, ‘I need to get right back in there right now, I’ve got to prove this, I’m going to go on another title run.’ Those are not things that I’ve been hearing from her.

“Where does her heart really lay? I’ve gone through the toughest of times. I’ve been head-kicked and knocked out before. I’ve lost to Ronda twice; that was the most devastating thing that ever could have happened to me inside my career. But here I am. I’ve made myself better for it. And I don’t recognize that in Ronda. I don’t recognize the same desire, the same passion, the same willingness to overcome that kind of adversity. I don’t see that in her.”

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