The U.F.C. Takes Manhattan

“Some kind of champion just walked by.” It was a rainy Monday morning in the midtown studios of Sirius Satellite Radio, and two women were sizing up the entourage that had just passed them in the hallway: Miesha Tate, who is in fact the bantamweight champion of the U.F.C., accompanied by a publicist and her father and, most important, her championship belt, which is roughly as big and as shiny as the grille of a luxury sedan. She was there to appear on a talk show hosted by Jenny McCarthy, who introduced her guest by telling her listeners, “I am so excited right now—I have a ladyboner!”

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