Cris Cyborg jumped on the UFC 300 wagon asking for a rematch in opposition to former rival, Amanda Nunes. All in response to Dana White’s announcement of signing her correspondent rival, Kayla Harrison, who will face Holly Holm on the upcoming tremendous occasion.
Dana White introduced former PFL girls’s light-weight champion, Kayla Harrison’s signing with a video posted on X. It contained transient highlights of her fights within the Skilled Fighters League with White stating that she is going to make her UFC debut in opposition to former UFC girls’s bantamweight title holder, Holly Holm at UFC 300.
Cris Cyborg, a former UFC girls’s featherweight and present Bellator girls’s featherweight champion in her personal proper, replied to White’s tweet. She proposed a rematch with Amanda Nunes at UFC 300.
🙏🏽 Dana…I’d love so as to add #CyborgNunes2 onto the @ufc 300 card too.
— CrisCyborg.Com (@criscyborg) January 24, 2024
Cris Cyborg’s UFC run
Cyborg made her strategy to world-leading MMA promotion by making a reputation for herself in varied organizations. After stacking up a 4 – 1 report on the Brazilian regional MMA circuit she made her U.S. debut at EliteXC: Unfinished Enterprise by stopping Shayna Baszler. The Brazilian fighter ran by way of all of the opposition in each EliteXC and Strikeforce, grabbing the latter promotion’s girls’s featherweight title within the course of. Nevertheless, she was stripped of the title after her protection in opposition to Hiroko Yamanaka on account of testing constructive for stanozolol. She continued her profitable methods by grabbing Invicta FC’s featherweight title, which she later vacated.
In 2015 it was introduced that Chris Cyborg signed with the UFC. She made her promotional debut by defeating Leslie Smith at UFC 198. Cyborg gained then vacated UFC featherweight title by TKOing Tonya Evinger at UFC 214. Subsequent, she defended the belt on two completely different events, together with in opposition to Holly Holm, earlier than shedding it to Amanda Nunes at UFC 232. Nines not solely served Cyborg her second and first KO loss in her profession but additionally turned a simultaneous two-division champion. Cyborg bounced again by defeating Felicia Spencer at UFC 240, however the promotion determined to not renew her contract or execute a three-month negotiation clause.
Cris Cyborg’s post-UFC profession
Cyborg was fast to discover a new worker within the type of Bellator, reigniting her relationship with Scott Coker. As soon as once more she turned the featherweight champion and is a present title holder. Throughout that interval she acknowledged on a number of events that she was serious about each a rematch with Amanda Nunes outdoors of UFC or combating Kayla Harrison on a battle card co-promoted by each Bellator and PFL. Apparently sufficient, she issued her request to Dana White regardless of signing a brand new, multi-fight take care of Bellator in Could 2023. Nevertheless, there’s a chance that her standing may change after the promotion was bought by PFL.
Amanda Nunes on her potential comeback
Amanda Nunes was in attendance for UFC 297, the place she witnessed Raquel Pennington beating Mayra Bueno for the vacated UFC girls’s bantamweight title. A belt, that Nunes vacated when she introduced her retirement from lively competitors in her post-fight interview at UFC 289.
In her interview with ESPN MMA’s Megan Olivi “The Lioness” acknowledged that she’s having fun with the life-style of a retired athlete, which permits her to spend extra time together with her youngsters and life accomplice, Nina Nunes. She additionally added that she’s nonetheless younger, so she will be able to’t rule out a possible return to MMA.
However I’m nonetheless wholesome and highly effective, sensible, suppose like a champion. I nonetheless really feel like a champion, so we’ll see.
