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On a recent “Throwback Thursday,” former title holder Miesha Tate posted a pic “back to when I was the #Strikeforce Champ! I hope to be able to someday say the same about the @UFC.”

How about today…since Tate can claim the title after defeating champ Holly Holm in UFC 196 in Las Vegas over the weekend! “Miesha Tate scored one of the most stunning finishes in mixed martial arts history,” raved MMA Fighting. “Tate won the title at 3:30 of the final round at the MGM Grand Garden Arena for her fifth straight victory.”

She did so with “a swift takedown in the final two minutes” and got her opponent in “a tight rear-naked choke hold. Holm tried to shake Tate off, and when she couldn’t, went unconscious instead of tapping out—still throwing punches into the air in front of her!”

“I knew I had to finish the fight,” said a jubilant Tate afterward. “I knew I had to be perfect in the fifth round.” Reporter Dave Doyle wrote, “The victory served as validation for Tate (18-5), the former Strikeforce champion who had played a major role in helping establish women’s fighting with the mainstream while Ronda Rousey got the credit.” So what did the new champ get for winning? A THIRD bout against Rousey: “Why does she always have to fight ‘Miesha, Miesha, Miesha?’!”

“I think that Ronda will now fight Miesha Tate for the title, That’s what going to happen,” declared UFC president Dana White (above) within minutes. Revealing Rousey didn’t watch the fight, White confided: “I text Ronda, and she said, ‘What happened?’ I said, ‘Miesha just choked her unconscious.’ She said, ‘Looks like I gotta get back to work.’”

It’s well known the two can’t stand each other—Rousey nearly head-butted Tate before their first fight (above left) and ignored the challenger’s handshake offer after beating her a second time (above right) in Dec. 2013.

All the talk leading up to that match centered on Tate’s ta-tas…and whether they were genuine: “Speculation arose when ‘Cupcake’ {Miesha’s moniker} was spotted with a little extra icing under her top,” wrote a prominent MMA blogger. “There are some who believe that UFC star Miesha Tate has had breast implants,” added another. “I think she probably wears a push-up bra under her sports bra,” rival Rousey opined at the time. “That’s my theory. It’s not like I’m checking these girls out, but I notice things, that she got kind of…either some really awesome perky titties, or something else.” Surely they looked like something else when the pair faced off prior to UFC 168.

So when the 5-foot-7 fighter sighed about how difficult it now was to come in under the 135-pound limit for the Bantamweight Division after her second loss to Rousey, an MMA website headlined: “Miesha Tate Complains About Making Weight. Meanwhile Her Breast Implants Weigh 4 Pounds!” And it appears there’s something two the pec•ulation (before after, below).

Maybe it’s the Tacoma titan’s love of beer that put the hops in her tops (again, before after above), but most UFC fans care more about the juice in her caboose!

Indeed, days before their last fight rival Rousey implied that Tate’s tuchus was the reason she rose in the ranks: “Miesha has a nice ass and she has an ongoing rivalry with me and that’s the only reason she was picked for this fight,” Ronda remarked. “She really has to play that part up because that’s all she really has.” The former champ got to see it first gland when she took Miesha to the mat in winning in 3 rounds 3 days later…

And the rest of the world got to glimpse her gluteus when Tate took off her clothes for ESPN in 2013—the year after Rousey had done so…then faulted UFC Ring Girls like Arianny Celeste and Brittney Palmer for posing full frontal and shaven for Playboy: “These girls are going to have to explain to their kids one day why mommy’s ass and vagina are all over the place.” To which Tate retorted: “I just get so tired of Ronda criticizing everyone else. I’m just saying it’s not okay to talk crap about the ring girls and then get 1 percent less naked, and say it’s okay.” Miesha’s ass was more than okay…especially when she autographed two posterior poses for the Sleuth!

“There has been a lot of talk about whether UFC star Miesha Tate’s boobs are real,” noted OurSportsHotties blog. “However, it would be very, very sad if we forgot about the gorgeous fighter’s backside. Please take time to check out Miesha Tate’s ass.” Sign us up!

And, to quote her next opponent, the new champ’s vagina was “all over the place” in a recent win-win…for labia lovers!

Who would surely rejoice if Miesha and her nemesis could bury the hatchet…and their noses in each other’s nether regions for a Sapphic showdown—as Tate predicted when they co-starred in The Ultimate Fighter reality show last season: “I have this idea actually that all the girls are going to be like lesbians or hooking up with all the girls.” For ‘Cupcake’ perhaps it would be the icing on the…pie?

“She’s a scrapper,” Holly Holm said of the brawler who beat her with a rear naked choke…

“She can be behind in a fight, and she can still finish.” And how many fight fans would give their right arm to finish on this behind?