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Cris Cyborg Starts Push To Compete At UFC 198 In Brazil

For Invicta FC champion Cris “Cyborg” Justino, the chance to fight inside the world-famous Octagon in her native country of Brazil is a dream she has.

Now, with the UFC set to return to the country later this year for UFC 198, Justino is starting up…

For Invicta FC champion Cris “Cyborg” Justino, the chance to fight inside the world-famous Octagon in her native country of Brazil is a dream she has.

Now, with the UFC set to return to the country later this year for UFC 198, Justino is starting up an online push to secure a spot on the card.

“It has been almost 10 years since I last fought in my home country of Brazil. I am very lucky that over the last decade my Brazilian Fans have continued to support me and my career as I chased my dreams as a World Champion, while living and competing in America,” she wrote on her personal website. “This May the UFC will be promoting an event in my hometown of Curitiba Brazil, a city very rich in fight history. It would be an honor to return back to the city I was born in, and to step inside of the Octagon with an opportunity to prove myself as one of the best female fighters in the sport.

“I know that the UFC does not have my division, which is why I am asking my fans to help make this fight!”

Justino is signed under the Zuffa umbrella as she goes on to mention thanks to her contract with Invicta FC. She was rumored for a fight with Tonya Evinger, but those plans have been put aside for the time being.

“As many of you know I am already a ZUFFA Contracted Athlete despite fighting for Invicta. Let the UFC know you would like to see me fight at UFC Curitiba Brazil this May by letting your voice be heard on Social Media!” she continued. “Show your support by posting a picture using the Hashtags #CyborgNoUFCBrazil (Portuguese) #Cyborg2UFCBrazil (English) on your Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook . Once you have done this you will be automatically entered into an opportunity of a lifetime.”

Cyborg Wants To Fight At UFC 198

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Invicta featherweight champion Cris “Cyborg” Justino (15-1, 1 NC) was rumored to fight 135lb champ Tonya Evinger at Invicta FC 17, but that that’s not happening. Evinger is expected to defend her title against Colleen Schneider at the event. Now, Cyborg is looking ahead, and fighting in the UFC is something that she is interested in now. In the past, Cyborg wanted the UFC to create a weight division (women’s featherweight) for her and then she would join the promotion. However, the UFC is against doing that.

Cyborg recently explained in a statement that she posted on her website that she wants to fight at the UFC 198 event in Brazil.

“This May the UFC will be promoting an event in my hometown of Curitiba, Brazil, a city very rich in fight history. It would be an honor to return back to the city I was born in, and to step inside of the Octagon with an opportunity to prove myself as one of the best female fighters in the sport.”

Cyborg understands that they do not have her women’s featherweight division so she is asking the fans to tell the UFC who she should fight.

“I know that the UFC does not have my division, which is why I am asking my fans to help make this fight!” Justino said.

“As many of you know I am already a Zuffa contracted athlete despite fighting for Invicta (Fighting Championships). Shannon (Knapp, Invicta FC owner) and Zuffa have a great relationship as you have seen with the sharing of fighters. If Invicta and the UFC could come to an agreement to let me defend my 145-pound belt in Curitiba it would be an honor,” “Cyborg” told FOX Sports in an exclusive interview.

“I cannot choose my opponent as a champion and so I would accept whoever they felt would make the most exciting fight for my fans.”

UFC 198 takes place on May 14th in Brazil. There is no venue announced for this event as of this writing. The event will be broadcasted on PPV, Fox Sports 1, and UFC Fight Pass.

The UFC has yet to comment publicly on Cyborg’s involvement at the event.

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Ortiz: Cyborg Would Have KO’d Rousey As Well, Wants Holm Superfight

According to Tito Ortiz, longtime member of Invicta FC Champion Cris Cyborg’s team (and her former manager), Cyborg would have done the same thing to Ronda Rousey that Holly Holm did at UFC 193 had she been given the opportunity to do so first.

Orti…

Ortiz spoke with MMAFighting.com recently and explained why Cyborg would have knocked out Rousey too, and is willing to do what it takes to put together a superfight against current UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Holly Holm.

“Cris Cyborg is the pound-for-pound best woman in the world, I believe. Holly Holm did what Cris would have done to Ronda. Holly Holm got that chance. She’s a great woman champion. But Cris is one of the most vicious fighters in the world. She just attacks. There’s no woman fighter in the world like her at all. She’s bred to fight. She comes from Brazil and Brazilians are the toughest fighters in the world. She loves this. This is fun for her.

Just keep giving her fights as the UFC did with Ronda. Ronda just kept getting fights, getting fights. The other girls huff and puff and scream and yell. Those are the ones that are the weakest, but they look good for pay-per-view, they look good for interviews. When it’s fight time, Holly Holm, Ronda Rousey, Cris Cyborg are at the top of the world. The rest of the women are looking up at them.

Holly Holm said she would come up and Cris would cut that extra five pounds. That extra five pounds is hurting her a little bit, but Cris is willing to do it. Just to give it to the fans. That’s the kind of fighter Cris is, to give the fans fights. That’s what she wants. She’ll fight anybody, man.”

Cyborg’s Manager Says Holly Holm Superfight In UFC ‘A Hail Mary’

Ever since Cristiane ‘Cyborg’ Justino ruled the Strikeforce women’s featherweight division and Ronda Rousey won the women’s bantamweight belt from Miesha Tate, the two have been inked in an at-times heated back-and-forth battle of words that has never even come close to a legitimate shot at an actual super fight. The onus was apparently on

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The onus was apparently on ‘Cyborg’ to somehow cut down to Rousey’s fighting weight limit of 135 pounds, something that was ultimately too taxing on her body. Then the prospect dissipated altogether when Rousey shockingly lost her title to Holly Holm at November 2015’s UFC 193, putting a swift finish to all of the speculation that wasn’t going anywhere anyway.

While that has considerably hurt ‘Cyborg’s’ chances at a UFC fight, her manager George Prajin recently told ESPN that while all the focus was on Rousey last year, 2016 is all about Justino on her own:

“It seems like last year, for us, was about Ronda Rousey,” Prajin said. “This year is about Cris Cyborg. She wants to concentrate on showing she’s the best in the world on her own, not standing in someone else’s shadow.”

But even though the spotlight could shine on ‘Cyborg’ this year, Prajin believes it’ll have to be in Invicta, as a UFC fight with Holm, whom he asserted is running out of opponents after she face Miesha Tate at March’s UFC 196 and rematches Rousey at some point, at an agreed-upon catchweight is simply a longshot at this point:

“Our only hope is a Hail Mary — a longshot,” Prajin said. “It’s the UFC seeing value in a Holly Holm vs. Cyborg catchweight fight. They have a division to protect. If Holly fights Cris at UFC 200 and gets smashed, it lowers her value as a champion. I’m sure they don’t want to do that.

“We still feel Cris is the only money fight out there for Holly besides a Rousey rematch. If Holly beats Miesha Tate [at UFC 196 on March 5] and then Ronda decides she doesn’t want to fight or loses to Holly again, the only fight that would make sense for Holly would be Cris.

“But I understand the UFC’s position right now. We can’t tell them how to run their business. It is what it is.”

The words raise an interesting conundrum for the UFC, as MMA fans would most likely not want to see Holm run over the rest of the relatively shallow UFC women’s bantamweight division is she were to get past Tate and Rousey. Yet losing in a one-sided bout to ‘Cyborg’ would take away most of her star power, so even though it would be a huge fight, it most likely won’t happen at UFC 200.

Overall, the UFC doesn’t have a 145-pound division, and they probably aren’t going to create one for a known steroid user in Justino, who is running through 145-pound females that few MMA fans have ever heard of in Invicta. Should they sign ‘Cyborg’ to fight Holm, or is the Brazilian bruiser simply becoming more trouble than she’s actually worth after all?

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Cris Cyborg Backs Ronda Rousey: She’s Been Good For Women’s MMA

Invicta FC featherweight champion Cris “Cyborg” Justino has never had a nice word to say about former UFC bantamweight queen “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey. The two have long been considered to be the top two female fighters on the planet, with a super fight always being discussed, but never quite coming to fruition. That idea has

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Invicta FC featherweight champion Cris “Cyborg” Justino has never had a nice word to say about former UFC bantamweight queen “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey.

The two have long been considered to be the top two female fighters on the planet, with a super fight always being discussed, but never quite coming to fruition. That idea has been put on the back burner as of now, however.

Heading into her UFC 193 (November 14, 2015) bout with Holly Holm, Rousey was a massive favorite as usual which is why fans were shocked when the “Rowdy” one was knocked out cold in the second round.

In the aftermath of such a brutal loss, Rousey has received an endless amount of negative backlash from fans, something “Cyborg” feels terrible about:

“It’s terrible,” said Cyborg, who will defend her Invicta FC featherweight title against Daria Ibragimova here Saturday night in the Invicta FC 15 main event. “When you’re there, every body is with you. I feel sorry about this. I know this, because before something happened in my career — the doping — and before everybody is with you [and then they’re not]. But I love my fans. Some fans kept with me and I’m sure she has that, too. It’s sad, but sometimes it’s good so you can see who’s with you. You can see who you really have to appreciate.” Justino told MMAFighting.

Continuing on, the Brazilian slugger admitted that she feels for the “Rowdy” one, as “Cyborg” knows the hurt feeling very well:

“This is not nice,” Cyborg said. “Losing a fight, winning — it happens. But these people make fun. … I know it’s not nice. I know she hurts now and I know depression.”

Much of the backlash towards Rousey has undoubtedly been due to the former champion’s notorious arrogance and cockiness so to say leading up to her fights. Touching on this, “Cyborg” said that losing is not the problem, but rather the talking:

“Always you can lose,” Cyborg said. “You can lose, you can win. It’s not embarrassing. It’s embarrassing when you speak before you fight. It’s embarrassing speaking bad. I think you have to work hard on what you say, because if you lose, when you come back from the airport you have to have a pillow on your face.”

Remaining relatively quiet regarding the media since her loss, Rousey’s future is currently unclear. It was thought that she would return at July’s UFC 200, but it was recently reported that she would need more time off, although it’s still thought that she will return at some point.

Despite their bitter rivalry, Justino hopes to see the “Rowdy” one back in action at some point, noting all she’s done for woman’s MMA:

“I think she’d like to use this to challenge herself and get better,” Cyborg said. “To come in and change. Something bad in life has to happen before you change and grow. I can’t say anything bad about her. She’s been good for women’s MMA. She opened a lot of doors. I know I [fought] before her, but she had opportunities and she’s handled it and helped everybody.”

Will Rousey compete again, and will the paths of these two female pioneers ever cross?

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