UFC Women’s Featherweight Champion Cyborg and UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Amanda Nunes are rumored to be clashing later this year.
The women’s featherweight champion doesn’t like waiting for the fight against Nunes and has decides to put her fellow Brazilian on blast.
“Amanda has talked a bunch of stuff, saying she couldn’t fight, that she was injured and would take her six months to recover,” Cyborg told MMA Fighting. “She challenged me in January and said she’s injured and needs some time. Ok, fine, but I’m a champion in my division and I’m always fighting. She’s used to fighting only once a year, but I’m ready to fight now. It’s been four months since my last fight, and I’m ready. There’s no excuse. ‘Oh, but there aren’t opponents for you.’ There are. If you look out there, there are. I’ve always fought in Invicta and always had opponents.”
Nunes did fight just once in 2017 and has fought one time already this year, defeating Raquel Pennington in the main event of UFC 224.
Cyborg says a champion must be ready to defend the title, because her job is to be a fighter.
”If you watch her interviews, it’s like she’s going out on vacation,” Cyborg said. “My job is fighting. I want to fight. I don’t want to stay out for almost a year in my prime. I think it’s disrespectful. … Dana (White) took Colby Covington’s belt. He won that belt two months ago and was stripped because (Tyron) Woodley wants to fight and he’s injured. How about me, who wants to fight? She challenged me six months ago and still needs six months? She said she’s going to travel with her girlfriend. No problem with that, but I’m ready to fight. A champion must be ready at all times. I want to fight now, and when she’s ready we can fight.”
There is still no word yet from the UFC as to when this bout could happen, but there are still four pay-per-views on the calendar this year with no main events announced.
