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In a year that already has proved to be massive for the UFC, with one major card after another, UFC 205 on Nov. 12 at Madison Square Garden in New York looks to be the biggest and most important of them all. In honor of such a marquee event, ESPN.com is providing dedicated previews to all 13 bouts on the card, breaking down whats at stake and projecting who will win, along with quotes and statistics for each fighter.Womens bantamweights: Miesha Tate (18-6) versus Raquel Pennington (8-5)Odds as of Nov. 4: Tate -185; Pennington +160Dana Whites thoughtsI like both of their fighting styles. Miesha is nasty. Shes tough, durable and super well-rounded. One of the most durable women Ive ever seen. Yeah, she got her nose smashed in her last fight with Amanda Nunes, but shes so tough. And this is another tough fight for her. The womens divisions right now, 115 and 135, are stacked, lot of good fights and they are very exciting.Whats at stake?Tate: Once youve tasted that life, its addictiveA few weeks after losing her title to Nunes at UFC 200, Tate flew to Kansas City to corner a friend. After the event, Tate rented a car and drove the 1,400 miles back to her home in Las Vegas, alone.As it turned out, that trip wasnt long enough for Tate. The minute she got home, she traded in the rental for her own car and continued driving -- first to Los Angeles and then up the coast to Washington.In all that time of reflection, did she ever reach a conclusion as to why she fought poorly in her first title defense? If she did, Tates keeping it to herself.I wish I could say it was one certain thing, Tate said. Sometimes you just have a bad night. I had a great camp. I trained hard. Not everything was perfect, there were a lot of difficult things going on in my personal life, but thats not the reason I lost. When the cage door closes I have one job, and I didnt execute that.Tate, 30, says her career is in a far better place than one year ago when she was publicly contemplating retirement after the UFC didnt come through with a promised title shot.Shes open to big fights and has made headlines by stating shed be open to one against a heavier Cris Cyborg Justino (and a trilogy fight against Ronda Rousey) -- but says reclaiming the title is still very much the goal. Tates climb to the top was one of the best stories of early 2016 and shed like to repeat that in 2017.During that drive, I reminded myself that I didnt get to where Im at based on one fight, Tate said. I get asked the Cyborg question and I say, Yeah, show me the money. But I want the title. Once youve tasted that life, I think its more addictive. Its one thing to wonder about it, its another to know exactly what it is.Pennington has everything to gainPennington broke into the UFC in 2013, as a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter reality series. She was the third pick of one of that seasons coaches, who just happened to be Tate.When Pennington describes Tates role on the show, she puts air quotes around the word coach. By her account, Tate was mostly hands-off as far as daily practices went.There was one major exception, however. Pennington says other members of Tates team refused to roll with her after a while, saying she went too hard. When Tate brought it up, she had a quick response.She said I needed to tone it down, and I was like, Youre not even out here. You should come roll with me and then tell me Im a bad partner, Pennington said.The two ended up working so well together, Tate flew Pennington back out to Las Vegas to help her prepare for a title fight against Rousey later that year.Pennington is now focused on her own title run, which has seen her win four of her past five fights. The only loss during that stretch came via split decision to Holly Holm, in a fight Pennington thinks she won. A win against her former coach and champion Tate would be the biggest of her career.Im not looking to put extra pressure on myself, but in reality, this is the biggest fight card in UFC history, Pennington said. Miesha has established a huge name for herself, and we have a storyline from our relationship on TUF. Theres a lot going on as far as all that, but I just see it as another stepping stone towards my goal.Im right there for a title shot, and I have everything to gain off this fight.Key statsTate: 18-6 record (5-3 UFC); 5-fight win streak snapped in loss to NunesTate: Scored takedowns in 6 of 8 UFC fights (9 total takedowns)Pennington: 8-5 record (5-2 UFC); 3-fight win streakPennington: +71 significant strike differential in UFC fights (356-285)BreakdownThe top of this female bantamweight division has featured an extreme clash of styles of late. Rousey the judoka. Holm the boxer. Tate the submission wrestler. Now, Nunes, a heavy hitter.Pennington isnt as easy to define. Shes a slick boxer with good head movement, but shell also bite down on her mouthpiece and throw when she feels she has opponents trapped near the fence. She has leaned on her wrestling enough that we definitely know its there and actually, although she classifies mostly as a striker, both of her UFC finishes have come via submission.Still, Tate figures to have a grappling advantage, especially if shes able to create scrambles with regularity. Tate has always flourished when a fight falls under a little chaos. Pennington is good at minimizing that because of her IQ and range awareness, plus a familiarity with Tates grappling ability cant hurt.Prediction:?Pennington via decision.You make the call: Niles Paul Jersey . Already owning gold from competition in Vancouver in 2010, Loch posted a combined four-run time of 3:27.526. That included a track-record third run of 51. Brandon Scherff Jersey . Mickelson barely made the cut but had the best round of the day with nine birdies and an eagle coupled with two bogeys to sit two shots behind leader Craig Lee of Scotland. Lee shot a 69 for a 12-under 204 total. 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Hesson also felt McCullum and Williamson brought a largely similar approach to their leadership styles.Kane captained, I think, 36 games before he took over full-time. Even during the time that Brendon was captain, for a number of tours or part of the tours, Kane came in and it was a very seamless change, Hesson told reporters after New Zealand arrived in New Delhi.I think the key to any captain-coach relationship is to making sure that we use each others strengths. Kane is very thoughtful, methodical, [as a] player likes to plan well, but also likes his own time.Brendon wasnt hugely dissimilar to that; he prepared really well. He was probably a little bit more of a high profile, sort of out there character, especially in New Zealand. As you see, Kane is probably slightly more of a backseat [type] but within the team they operate in a very similar fashion.Williamson, for his part, is well aware of the importance of compartmentalising his twin roles as leader and premier batsman. Although he comes on the back of a good run of scores - Williamson finished as the teams second-highest run-getter in New Zealands recent tours of Zimbabwe and South Africa - he recognises the need to pull his weight as one of the teams better players of spin bowling.I suppose you take that [captaincy] hat off and you are very much a batsman and you have a role to play in the team. I see them as slightly different things, so that to me is the focus, Williamson said.India is a tough place to play, particularly, in more recent years where the pitches have been very tricky. I guess [when] you throw in world-class spinners, the challenges are very tough but at the same time we see it as a very exciting opportunity. [The] previous series here, certainly spin played a huge part, and at times batting was difficult.Hesson said playing on the dry pitches of Bulawayo during the Zimbabwe tour was a useful preparatory exercise ahead of the India series. Both he and Williamson agreed their players had to draaw upon whatever past experiences they had of playing in India - either during the IPL or in past tournaments like the World T20.ddddddddddddThat [Zimbabwe tour] was very much a spin-dominant series and conditions, he said. Although it didnt spin as much, it certainly was slower and probably similar pace that we are going to face in India. The week between the series has been about rest really and recovery, and obviously the next week-to-ten days is going to be critical to be really specific around individual game plans.Hesson was upbeat about New Zealands gifted spin trio - Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi and the returning Mark Craig - making a mark despite their relative inexperience: they have a combined tally of 98 wickets from 34 Tests.In the last couple of years, a number of overseas spinners have done well, so we certainly back our spinning group [which is] young and inexperienced but gifted, Hesson said. The challenge for us is firstly in adjusting to the different ball - the SG Test is going to be completely different to what we have been operating with the Kookaburra. So, there is a little bit of change there, a little bit of changing around seam angles, which are different over here than they are in different parts of the world.Even though we are not going to bowl like sub-continental bowlers, we do have to make sure that we find a way to create opportunities. All those three are keen learners of the game and certainly we are going to put a lot of faith in them over the coming weeks.Hesson also believed that the seamers, Trent Boult, Tim Southee and Neil Wagner, would put to good use the time they spent working on reverse swing in Zimbabwe. It is a huge component of playing cricket overseas, he said. 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