The UFC is trying to book a superfight between women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg and bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes for the latter of 2018, but the date and location of the bout remains up in the air, which frustrates the featherweight champ.
Cyborg has now stated that the superfight could be her last fight in the UFC. She is targeting the UFC’s Sept. 8 pay-per-view show to face Nunes, but the bantamweight champion wants the date to be at the Dec. 29 card in Las Vegas.
“I think this fight will be my last in the UFC, because my contract expires in March,” Cyborg told Brazilian television show Combate News, “and doing this fight in December, I think it will be the last that people will see me fight.”
Cyborg has complained for a long time about the fact that the UFC hasn’t built the featherweight division to create contenders to challenge her for the belt, and she isn’t thrilled about the selection of fighters for the upcoming season of The Ultimate Fighter, which features heavyweights and female featherweights.
“They are doing the TUF house and cut all the girls from 145,” Cyborg said. “They only added girls that can make 135. Holly Holm said she doesn’t want to fight now. There’s Pam Sorenson, she tried out for TUF and didn’t make it, I think they didn’t add her because she can’t make 135. There’s Cindy Dandois, who beat Megan Anderson as well. There’s Ediane Gomes, who sends me messages challenging me all the time, who is also from my division.
”There are girls that can fight, from my division. But they don’t want that, they only want me to fight Amanda. But we have to wait 10 months, almost a year to make this fight happen.”