Cris Cyborg is undefeated at Bellator with five victories won and now wants to bet on new career challenges, going to another sphere of fights
Chris Cyborg wants to bet on a novelty in his career and still fulfill an old dream. After another successful featherweight title defense (up to 65.8kg) at Bellator, when last Saturday, the 23rd, he won the Australian Arlene Blencoweby unanimous decision, on a card in Honolulu, Hawaii, reaching 26 victories in his entire career in the modality.
Champion of Strikeforce, Invicta FC, UFC and Bellator, the featherweight hopes to be able to take an unprecedented step into the boxing rings. The 36-year-old fighter gave a press conference after the weekend’s fight for the website “MMA Junkie”, and said that this dream could come soon, but it also depends on who the next opponent will be.
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“For me, the next fight I would like to do would be a boxing match. It’s one of my dreams. Maybe it’s the next (dream) I’m working on. I don’t know. I don’t know who will be next or who Bellator will put in front of me – Cat Zingano, Amanda Nunes, Kayla Harrison… I like to be at the big shows for my fans and enjoy every time I go there for the title,” said the fighter.
At 36 years old, Chris Cyborg He also recalled that he has taken a risk in other modalities in the fighting world, but that getting into the ring is still in his Top 10 of things he still wants to do. In MMA, she has already faced rivals who came from boxing, such as her own blencowe and Holly Holm. “I’ve been training boxing for a fight. I’m looking for a fight. I did everything, I did jiu-jitsu, I did a muay thai fight. The only thing I didn’t do was boxing. It’s one of my dreams”, said.
Unlike what usually happens when she’s in the ring acting for the UFC, at Bellator Cris Cyborg won’t have much trouble fighting through the cage she has ahead of her. This because Scott Coker warned that this is already provided for in the contract that was signed between the two parties previously.
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“I think it’s up to her. I’ll be honest with you and I don’t want to go into too much detail, but it’s always been an agreement that we had with her, that she can box at any time in our contract with her. She (could) fight. boxing a year or eight months ago. She was always able to box in her agreement,” revealed the fighter.
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