It is no secret that Ronda Rousey, the UFC women's bantamweight champion, is no fan of Invicta star Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino. Rousey has an upcoming fight at UFC with Alexis Davis at UFC 175, but should she dispatch Davis with ease like she's done to all her other UFC opponents, a date with the Cyborg might be inevitable.
Justino and Invicta FC are doing all they can to pave the way too. Whereas the naturally bigger Justino has often balked at facing Rousey because of a size mismatch, she's apparently willing to dip to bantamweight now.
"I haven't had that opportunity to talk to her, but definitely she has expressed that she wants to go down to 135 and she wants a shot at making her way over there to compete against Ronda," Invicta FC owner Shannon Knapp said. "I'm going to do everything I can to help her with that."
According to Yahoo! Sports, Knapp is also interested in making a documentary about the process of making a Rousey-Justino fight happen. "We'll see what she wants to do first but I'm all about getting her on this platform and dropping down and documenting that," she said.
"Sharing that with the fans. Our goal is to give even more content that what we have given in the past, so we'll see what she wants to do, but you know what, we're definitely coming. She's going to make that move and we'll see what happens."
Rousey's never said she wouldn't fight Justino, but she has ripped her in the past for both alleged and proven use of performance enhancing drugs.
In one Cyborg-related rant that garnered a great deal of controversy, Rousey said Justino could disgrace the entire UFC brand.
"I've said before, I don't care if she's injecting horse semen into her eyeballs, I'll fight her, but that's just my personal decision," Rousey said. "But I can't make a decision for the whole division. I can't say it's the right thing. This girl has been on steroids for so long and [has been] injecting herself for so long that she's not even a woman anymore. She's an 'it.' It's not good for the women's division. It's not good at all.
"If she comes in the UFC and I beat the [expletive] out of her and then I retire and become an action movie star, then the UFC is still going to be stuck with her. The division could die. She could ruin the whole sport. Even though it's a fight a lot of people want to see, even if I beat the living crap out of her, it won't be good for the sport because then she'd still be in the UFC."
Justino responded to those comments by claiming she used PEDs to gain weight, not muscles and has denied the long-term usage alleged.
"I don't need [steroids] for muscles," Justino told Yahoo! Sports. "I always had muscles for as long as I remember. It's how I was born. I did it for the weight. It was a mistake, but it wasn't to cheat and get muscles. It was weight [loss]."
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