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While it’s hard to argue against the suggestion that Ronda Rousey’s professional MMA resume lacks real depth, claiming that the overall level of Conor McGregor’s opposition has been poor seems more than a little unfair. Yet, that’s exactly what UFC women’s featherweight champion Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino did when she was asked to identify the UFC’s two most over-hyped fighters during …

On December 30th, at UFC 219, Holly Holm landed 44 significant strikes on Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino according to FightMetric. 75% of those, or 33 significant strikes, were to the head of the Brazilian. However, while we have no doubt that those shots were slightly more venomous, none were any cleaner than the one that Justino’s own coach Jason Parillo landed …

UFC 221, which is scheduled to take place in Perth, Western Australia on February 11th, might be about to get a second title bout, as Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino claims she has agreed to fight Invicta FC featherweight champion Megan Anderson at the event. Justino is only days removed from a taxing five-round unanimous decision win over former UFC bantamweight queen …

After being urged to do so by Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino, the UFC have banned JacksonWink media director and photographer Mark Aragon from future events. Justino scored a unanimous decision win over JacksonWink star Holly Holm in the main event of UFC 219 on Saturday night, retaining her women’s featherweight title in the process. Just hours later, Aragon took aim at …

Just hours after she made a successful first defence of her UFC women’s featherweight title against Holly Holm at UFC 219, Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino was the victim of a rather surprising social media attack at the hands of an official representative of the JacksonWink fight team, of which her opponent Holly Holm is a part. The powerful Justino overcame Holm …

UFC women’s featherweight champion Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino topped the list of disclosed salaries for UFC 219 in Las Vegas on Saturday night, receiving a flat payout of $500,000 for her main event turn, while fellow headliner Holly Holm and three other fighters also earned six-figure sums. ‘Cyborg’, who showed patience, poise and characteristic power to overcome Holm via unanimous decision, …

On Saturday night in Las Vegas, UFC women’s featherweight champion Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino proved that she is far more than merely a mix of bullish aggression, power and strength, as she scored a unanimous decision win over crafty former bantamweight queen Holly Holm in the main event of UFC 219. Ahead of the fight, there seemed to be two main …

The first episode of UFC 219 Embedded has landed. We are just a few days away from the final event on the UFC’s 2017 calendar. Over the weekend, the show lost one of it’s most intriguing scraps, a bantamweight bout between Jimmie Rivera and John Lineker, but it still has plenty to offer – with Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino defending the …

UFC 219 might not be the card that many were hoping it would be and it doesn’t quite boast the enormous star-power of 2016’s year-end event, UFC 207, but it still has an awful lot to offer. While the UFC 207 headliner between women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes and Ronda Rousey generated far more hype, UFC 219’s main event between …

Based on recent comments from Holly Holm, a mooted clash between she and Ireland’s Katie Taylor seems highly unlikely. Murmurings about a potential boxing match between the pair emerged in late summer/early autumn, with both Taylor’s promoter Eddie Hearn and her manager Brian Peters suggesting that the fight could come together at a later date. “There’s huge interest from American …

Tyron Woodley teased a 2017 return during the UFC Norfolk post-fight show.

Ariel Helwani has provided a significant update regarding the December 30th card in Las Vegas.

A look at the biggest threats for each UFC champion in holding on to their title.

Edmond Tarverdyan hopes that Ronda Rousey will return to the octagon for one more fight - against Cris 'Cyborg' Justino.

Tonya ‘Triple Threat’ Evinger was tough and somewhat awkward, but eventually she met the same fate as just about every fighter who has encountered Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino for the last decade-plus. The end came for Evinger in the third, when Justino hammered the Invicta FC bantamweight champion with a thudding barrage of knees in the clinch, dropping her to a …

While it seemed that most of the other fighters gathered at the scene, some with cameras rolling, were happy to stand around and wait for a scrap to materialize, Chris Weidman felt that something should be done to ensure that the heated argument between UFC featherweight star Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino and strawweight Angela Magana at the recent UFC Athlete Retreat …

Late last week, a flood of tweets from UFC star Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino and boxing star Claressa ‘T-Rex’ Shields confirmed that the pair would be working together ahead of Justino’s upcoming women’s featherweight title fight with Megan Anderson. Oh! Forgot! Me and @criscyborg are teaming up this weekend! Stay tuned!!!!! — ClaressaT-rexShields (@Claressashields) June 23, 2017 The two baddest chicks …