Jolldan Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 https://www.bjpenn.com/mma-news/cris-cyborg-justino/cris-cyborg-believes-amanda-nunes-fight-will-be-her-last-in-the-ufc/ UFC women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg was hoping her super fight with bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes would occur at UFC 228 this September 8. Regrettably, Nunes turned this date down, and the UFC is now working on the fight for UFC 232 on December 29. This is not ok with Cyborg, who has not fought since March, when she mauled Yana Kunitskaya to a first-round stoppage. The featherweight champ is simply not interested in enduring long layovers of this length. “Friday, last week, I talked to the UFC, and I said I wanted to fight, that I’m ready to fight,” Cyborg said on the Brazilian program Combate News (translated by Fernanda Prates for MMAjunkie). “I’ve been training, ready, and I want to fight. They offered me September, the 8th, in Dallas, to fight Amanda. I said that’s fine. I’ll fight. I’ve been training. I’m ready. A champion has to be ready all the time. “Then on Monday they said [she] didn’t accept Sept. 8. Then I said I wanted to fight anyway. I want to fight. I don’t want to be idle. And then Amanda sent the picture, saying she accepted the fight on Dec. 29.” “It’s the same as someone arriving at your house, knocking at your door and asking you to throw down, and then they say, ‘Wait, I need one year to prepare,’” Cyborg continued, discussing Nunes’ original call-out of her. “When you do that, you have to be ready for when the fight happens. But then to need six months to prepare, one year? I think it’s disrespectful toward me, to wait one year for a person to be ready. I have no problem with fighting Amanda on Dec. 29. She wants time to be ready. But I believe I could fight before that, not wait all this time. Especially because we get paid when we fight. “I don’t think it’s right for the girls in Amanda’s division to wait one year to fight. I know that Ketlen Vieira, she deserves to fight for the belt. So if [Nunes] needs all this time to move up a weight class, heal her leg, whatever time she needs, then she should vacate the belt and do an interim belt so Vieira has her shot at the belt.” In Cris Cyborg’s opinion, the UFC’s willingness to bump this fight back on the docket is the latest example of their proven lack of commitment to their women’s featherweight division. Another example is the women’s featherweight cast for the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter, which features a handful of beefed-up bantamweights. “They did the [TUF 28] house, and they cut all the girls at 145,” Cyborg said. “They only signed up the girls who can make 135 pounds. Holly Holm says she doesn’t want to fight now. Pam Sorenson tried out for ‘TUF,’ but she didn’t make it. They didn’t put her through I think because she doesn’t make 135. There’s Cindy Dandois, who also beat Megan Anderson. “There’s Ediane Gomes, who sends me messages challenging me all the time. [she’s] also in my division. There are girls who can fight. There are girls in my division. But they don’t want it. They want that fight with Amanda. But I don’t think it’s fair to wait 10 months, one year for this fight to happen.” Needless to say, Cyborg is getting fed up with the way the UFC is managing her career and the division she rules, and she’s prepared to take her services elsewhere when her contract wraps up in March. In fact, she expects her UFC career to end at that point. “I believe [Nunes] will be my last fight in the UFC,” Cyborg said. “My contract goes until March, and with me waiting to fight in December, I think it will be the last one people will see me fight.” 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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cashfl0w Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 (edited) Only one female fighter worth watching, and she's on her way out. Great. Edited July 16, 2018 by cashfl0w 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stehilton94 Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 Already said that in here, but that's cool like..... http://forums.ufcfightclub.com/topic/196660-nunes-v-cyborg-ufc-232-possible-date/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcmax3000 Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 Oh no... We're not going to get to see her fight more people that are a fraction of her size? Darn. Putting her against Nunes is especially dumb if it's the last fight on her contract. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cashfl0w Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 Oh no... We're not going to get to see her fight more people that are a fraction of her size? Darn. Putting her against Nunes is especially dumb if it's the last fight on her contract. None of that is Cyborg's fault. She asked fot Germaine de Randamie, who is actually bigger than Cyborg. She asked for Megan Anderson, also bigger, and they botched that. Cyborg gives the fans what they want. She fights anybody. The UFC is the problem. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcmax3000 Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 She asked fot Germaine de Randamie, who is actually bigger than Cyborg. Yeah, that woman who fought at Bantamweight for four years... I'm sure she's way bigger than Cyborg. I don't blame Cyborg for the fact that there are no opponents in her weight class, but I'm also not going to sit here and talk about how amazing her UFC career has been, or be sad about her leaving when she has yet to fight anyone her own size the entire time she's been with the promotion. Let her go to Bellator where they actually have something that kind of resembles a Featherweight division for the women. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cashfl0w Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 Yeah, Cyborg should be out actively recruiting opponents for the UFC to sign. Can't believe she just fought whoever they wanted. Smh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cashfl0w Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 She's been demanding superfights for literally her entire stint with the company, FFS. In the OP, she is once again demanding the toughest fight they can offer. "Ship her out!"... meanwhile, the next PPV is with two guys that wouldn't man up and give us the superfight we wanted. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mcmax3000 Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 Yeah, Cyborg should be out actively recruiting opponents for the UFC to sign. Can't believe she just fought whoever they wanted. Smh I don't blame Cyborg for the fact that there are no opponents in her weight class She's been demanding superfights for literally her entire stint with the company, FFS Only if they come up to her weight class. At least with Dillashaw, he's offering to lose the weight to go down to 125 to fight Johnson, but demanding that your smaller opponent fight you in your weight class? **** off. You get no credit for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cashfl0w Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 So your stance is that it's not impressive because she's not demanding they open a division that doesn't exist to give her a bigger fighter? Or that she's not great because she cannot physically weigh 135 pounds without dying? I'm just trying to gauge how big of an idiot you are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.B.E Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 Oh no... We're not going to get to see her fight more people that are a fraction of her size? Darn. Putting her against Nunes is especially dumb if it's the last fight on her contract. agreed. If Cyborg wins it takes all the lustre off their only remaining female champion. The ufc has been very short sighted of late 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillandpower Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 (edited) Is Herb Dean trying to hump Cyborg on that pic ? Edited July 16, 2018 by skillandpower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-idyb- Posted July 16, 2018 Report Share Posted July 16, 2018 Only one female fighter worth watching, and she's on her way out. Great. hate to go all politically correct on people, but im not entirely convinced that cyborg was ever a female fighter to begin with. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishSemtex Posted July 22, 2018 Report Share Posted July 22, 2018 December 29 is my birthday. I won't be spending it watching this "fight". The dude is right, the ufc is being crappy in not letting him fight. But then again, didn't he just get a half million to beat up some chick nobody had heard of in his last fight? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King_Can Posted July 22, 2018 Report Share Posted July 22, 2018 Amanda knocks her out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cashfl0w Posted July 22, 2018 Report Share Posted July 22, 2018 Amanda knocks her out. I'll knock you out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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