Filed under: Featured , Featured Videos , News , UFC (An abridged version of this story first appeared in today’s USA TODAY .) There came a time early on in their romance when Bryan Caraway told Miesha Tate that she’d have to choose. This was before they were even in the boyfriend-girlfriend realm, before either of them was signed to the UFC roster. This was back when they were just college students who shared a passion for mixed martial arts and the first hints of interest in one another. They met when Tate (15-5 MMA, 2-2 UFC), then a freshman at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Wash., began attending practices at the school’s MMA club, led by Caraway (23-4 MMA, 7-1 UFC), a senior. Soon after that they began dating, but when Tate said she wanted to get serious about MMA and begin training with the competition team off-campus, Caraway put his foot down. He couldn’t be the captain of the team if he was also dating one of its female members, he told her.
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