UFC women’s bantamweight contender Miesha Tate said she is happy the world is finally learning what she already knew: Ronda Rousey is far from the UFC poster girl who can do no wrong.

We’re just two episodes into the 18th season of “The Ultimate Fighter” reality show – which pits Tate and Rousey against each other as coaches – and already viewers are seeing a side of “Rowdy” that’s never come to the surface in a public forum.

At times Rousey (7-0 MMA, 1-0 UFC) has come off as angry, hostile and confrontational, which are personal traits Tate (13-4 MMA, 0-1 UFC) feels have always been there; they’ve just never been completely exposed, she said.

“It’s easy when you’re doing an interview for 15 minutes to look like the cool chick and whatever, but when you’re on a show for six weeks, it’s hard to conceal exactly who you are,” Tate today told MMAjunkie.com Radio. “I think there’s finally some light being shed on the whole situation, and basically it’s going to change in one way or another.”

The duo’s rivalry dates back long before “TUF.” They fought once before under the Strikeforce banner in 2010, when Rousey earned a first-round submission victory to take Tate’s title.

Tate felt she had a pretty strong grip on what type of person Rousey was going into the show due to their previous interactions, but after being a firsthand victim of Rousey’s outbursts over the course of several weeks, the 27-year-old now sees a mental flaw in her adversary.

“I realized that she is very, very, very emotional,” Tate said. “I would even go as far as to say emotionally unstable. When my team’s going through ups and downs, I want to be the stable one that they look to and find strength in. That was my goal. I didn’t necessarily see that from her all the time. She came off a little unstable. She is emotional, she did care [about her team], but I do see that as a weakness.”

With 10 episodes still remaining before the season’s finale, Tate is aware both coaches will remain under the scrutiny for the foreseeable future.

Tate would like to say the encounters on the pre-taped show will get less hostile going forward, but she said she can’t lie. While Rousey may have been the instigator, the Olympic medalist wasn’t the only one with regrettable moments. Tate said she just had far more of them.

“It’s pretty much downhill from here on out,” Tate said. “I’m not perfect. You guys are going to see moments where I break or I have an issue or where we butt heads, and I’m not as easygoing or able to just brush it off because it’s not the easiest thing to do. Really it’s not. When someone’s in your face all the time and especially me being a competitor and whatnot, it takes a certain level of professionalism and patience. I had to remind myself to be very patient.

“There are times where you’re going to see me not be perfect, but I don’t claim to be perfect, so I just did the best that I could to stay true to myself and try to deal with her the best way possible. And I think it pissed her off a lot of the time because for the majority, she was not able to get the reaction that she was used to getting from me.”

For Tate, her animosity toward Rousey runs deeper than a simple clash in personalities. Tate feels she is mature to the point where she’s able to dismiss any negative comments thrown her way, but her real issue with Rousey is what people don’t get to see behind the scenes in terms of her treatment of others.

“I think I know the real Ronda Rousey,” Tate said. “She’s cool if you’re her friend and whatnot, but the fact that she could treat random people as poorly as she does – I’m talking about the producers, I’m talking about the camera guys, I’m talking about myself, I’m talking about just other people that I’ve witnessed her work with and how difficult she is and how she always seems like she has a chip on her shoulder, that everyone’s out to get her.”

Having to experience the process of the show both in real life – and then again on television – takes its toll on Tate emotionally, but the light at the end of the tunnel is the fact she will rematch Rousey at UFC 168 on Dec. 28.”

The match is an opportunity for Tate to earn payback for everything Rousey has said or done while simultaneously taking what her opponent holds dearest: the UFC belt.

Tate relishes that chance, and even though the fight is still several months away, she said the bitterness won’t be forgotten. She plans to throw everything back in Rousey’s face in the form of her first professional defeat.

“Honestly I would love to just humiliate her in every way,” Tate said. “I think the most the gratifying way of victory for me would be to knock her out. Absolutely, I think just shutting her mouth and knocking her out and putting her on her butt would be a really good feeling,

“She’s going to have to fight me. It’s not going to be like any other fight she’s had before, and I think she knows that she’s in for the fight of her life.”

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