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Monday Morning Pick-Me-Up: Miesha Tate Captures a UFC Title for Tacoma

Plus, Jay Pharoah's black comedian impressions on 'SNL' and the darker side of 'Fuller House.'

Seth Sommerfeld
Author: Seth Sommerfeld
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TACO-MA! TACO-MA! TACO-MA!

A new Northwest champion was crowned in Las Vegas on Saturday Night. Tacoma’s own Miesha Tate scored a shocking upset over the previously undefeated Holly Holm to win UFC Women’s Bantamweight Championship. The Franklin Pierce High grad (nicknamed “Cupcake”) was the aggressor all fight, and finally took down Holm in the fifth and final round with a rear naked choke. Tate applied the submission move while straddling Holm’s back against the octagon’s cage, and somehow managed to hold on and lock it in even tighter after Holm tried a desperation front flip in hopes of dislodging her opponent. The victory gives Tate her first UFC title after previously holding the belt in the now defunct Strikeforce organization.

Next up for the new hometown champion? Likely another fight with  the sport’s most popular woman, Ronda Rousey. And there’s more than a little history there. The duo squared off twice already (in 2012 and 2013), and their rivalry essentially put women’s mixed martial arts on the map and led to the creation of UFC’s women’s division. Rousey won the prior two meetings against Tate (nearly breaking Tate’s arm in the first match and refusing to shake post-fight in the other), but was pummeled in her most recent match… a title defeat again Holm. Here’s hoping third time’s the charm for Tate.

QUITE IMPRESSED

In last weekend’s overall underwhelming episode of Saturday Night Live, Jay Pharoah stole the show by doing what he does best—impressions. Instead of his superb Denzel Washington, Obama, or pretty much any rapper, the master mimic turned his attention to his fellow black comedians. As part of Weekend Update, Pharoah acted out all the parts in an alleged Hollywood meeting of black comedians to defuse tensions between Kevin Hart and Katt Williams. Each impression precisely hit the mark (his Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy were perfect), but please take time to appreciate his Hannibal Buress, because it requires way more subtlety and no one does a Hannibal Buress impression.

GOOD TWEETS OF THE WEEK

These are good tweets, y’all…

EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK, EVERYWHERE YOU GO…

Unnecessary Buzzfeed nostalgia dream come to life Fuller House, a sequel to the ’80s–’90s sitcom Full House, arrived on Netflix at the end of February. To promote the “new” series (which has already been picked up for a second season), stars Bob Saget, John Stamos, and Dave Coulier visited The Late Show and shared an edgier spinoff called Full House Nights, where their characters play gritty detectives. The trio interrogated an international drug kingpin (played by Stephen Colbert), and cheesy mayhem ensued. 




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Seth Sommerfeld
Seth Sommerfeld
Assistant Editor (Arts) Seth Sommerfeld runs the arts department at Seattle Met, crafting the magazine's On the Town section, editing the Culture Fiend blog, and contributing to reader service features such as “The Ultimate Seahawks Guide” and the front-of-the-book department, Mudroom. Seth has written about music and culture for Rolling Stone, Spin, Pacific Northwest Inlander, Charleston Post and Courier, Syracuse Post-Standard, and Billings Gazette. He also extensively covered the NBA Draft for years for Fox Sports and NBADraft.net, and was published as part of Myth, Media, and Culture in Star Wars: An Anthology. Originally from Billings, Montana, Seth first lived in Washington while earning an undergraduate degree in journalism and broadcasting at Gonzaga University. He followed up those studies at Syracuse University, where he earned a master’s degree in arts journalism.