UFC president, Dana White has performed down a possible promotional return for former featherweight champion and present Bellator MMA gold holder, Cris Cyborg, pointing to the truth that her nearest competitors, lately minted two-weight champion, Amanda Nunes beforehand landed a primary minute knockout win over her.
Cris Cyborg, a former Invicta FC, Strikeforce, and UFC featherweight champion, managed to efficiently rating her fourth title protection again in April, defeating two-time opponent, Arlene Blencowe with a unanimous resolution win.
As for Nunes, the Bahia native headlined UFC 277 simply final weekend towards two-time opponent, Julianna Peña – securing an impressively, one-sided unanimous decision win over the Washington native in the pair’s bantamweight title rematch.
With the Brazilian duo working out of distinct competitors to problem for his or her respective titles, Cyborg, whose contract with the Scott Coker-led Bellator is ready to run out inside her subsequent couple of fights, has been linked with a considerably left-field UFC return, with a purpose to safe a title rematch with Nunes.
Dana White shuts down UFC comeback for Cris Cyborg
Nonetheless, as per the aforenoted, White – Nunes’ December 2018 first spherical knockout win over the Curitiba veteran locations doubt in his thoughts if Cyborg ought to pursue a return to the group.
“I imply, Amanda (Nunes) completely dominated (Cris) Cyborg,” Dana White informed assembled media following Dana White’s Contender Collection. “The (Valentina) Shevchenko battle makes far more sense – and I’m not simply sh*tting on Cyborg ‘trigger we’ve had historical past.”
“To be sincere with you, I don’t often speak about this sh*t publicly – you recognize what I say, I don’t let you know guys something, however she (Cris Cyborg) really texted me and wished me a contented birthday, you recognize, for my birthday,” Dana White continued. “It’s not like Cyborg and I hate one another and I’m not making an attempt to discredit her, be imply to her – I want her the very best in no matter she’s doing. And it was good of her to ship me a birthday textual content. I simply wished to reiterate that I’m not sh*tting on Cyborg.”
In her last contracted battle with the UFC, Cyborg managed to defeat the now-retired, Felicia Spencer at UFC 240 in July 2019, defeating the Canadian with a unanimous resolution win in a co-headlining outing.
