Miesha Tate clarifies OnlyFans remarks: “I was being harassed and responded jokingly. This is being taken way out of context”

By Susan Cox - January 14, 2022

Miesha Tate, who recently booked her flyweight debut opposite Lauren Murphy, has clarified her previous remarks about OnlyFans.

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It appears that Tate, 35, joked that she wasn’t desperate enough to make an OnlyFans account during an interview with Shakiel Mahjouri.

In a YouTube video while answering questions about her aspirations for 2022 Miesha Tate shut down a potential venture onto OnlyFans, while claiming she hadn’t said she was ‘desperate’. ‘Cupcake’ believes her comment was just in jest and it has been spun into a media frenzy.

This comment created outrage with fans & fighters alike suggesting that Jessica Andrade, Paige VanZant, Kay Hansen and others were ‘desperate’ in their decisions to join the platform.

Taking to Twitter ‘Cupcake’ commented:

“Ladies this was taken way out of context, I had some fans harassing me insinuating I needed to start an only fans. I responded jokingly, this was not a statement I made about other women. I appreciate we can all have our own choices and I support women 100.%”

Apparently that tweet did little to change social media opinions so Miesha Tate took to Twitter again to apologize, saying she had simply made a mistake:

“I am truly sorry I have friends in the industry and I support that 100%. In no way shape or form was it my intention to put anyone down, I am only human I let someone make me mad and what I said to them was not a rep of how I feel about this as a whole.”

Miesha Tate (19-8 MMA) is set to get back in the ring to fight Lauren Murphy (15-5 MMA) in the flyweight division at UFC 273 on April 9th.

Do you believe Tate’s comments were just a mistake or is there more behind the words? Share your thoughts in the comment section PENN Nation!


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