{"id":197443,"date":"2016-06-25T11:39:24","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T18:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=197443"},"modified":"2016-06-25T11:39:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T18:39:24","slug":"cris-cyborg-calls-for-the-ufc-to-create-womens-featherweight-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/cris-cyborg-justino\/cris-cyborg-calls-for-the-ufc-to-create-womens-featherweight-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Cris Cyborg calls for the UFC  to create women&#8217;s featherweight division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Invicta FC women&#8217;s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg made her highly anticipated UFC debut.  <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc-results\/ufc-198-results\/ufc-198-results-cristiane-justino-vs-leslie-smith\/\">Cyborg dominated the fight, knocking out Leslie Smith<\/a> in the 1st round of their catchweight scrap.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the dominant win, Cyborg <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/cris-cyborg-justino\/cris-cyborg-lays-out-potential-plans-following-ufc-198-fight\/\">expressed her desire to return to Invicta<\/a> to defend her featherweight championship before returning to the UFC.  While <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/miesha-tate\/miesha-tate-eyes-future-fight-with-cris-cyborg\/\">Miesha Tate is open to a fight against Cyborg<\/a>, Cyborg is putting the pressure on the UFC to create a women&#8217;s featherweight division.<\/p>\n<p>She spoke on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2016\/6\/25\/11989930\/cris-cyborg-will-never-forget-the-things-ronda-rousey-said-i-would\" target=\"_blank\">The MMA Hour:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;When you think about, I say man, I don\u2019t want,&#8221; Cyborg said of making 140 pounds again. &#8220;When you really think, I don\u2019t want because it\u2019s really hard, really stressful. I love training, I train a lot, but for 140 it\u2019s worse. You have to run every day. I ran six miles in the morning, six miles at night, and train MMA and other arts, too. It\u2019s a lot of work, a lot of work. \u2026 Man, it\u2019s no easy. George Lockhart is very good. I think I need some more time between fights at 140. I think 140 all the time is not good for my body.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I\u2019m asking for this for a lot of years, for my division (in the UFC),&#8221; she continued. &#8220;They say they don\u2019t have a lot of girls at 145. I would think they have a lot of girls. But they say it\u2019s hard to make one division of 145 for now. They opened for me at 140. I\u2019m open for big fights and it would be my dream to make my division in the UFC. It makes me sad that I don\u2019t have my division, but they can make the biggest fights for all my fans. ESPN says I\u2019m the number one pound for pound in women\u2019s MMA, and I think if the UFC wants to invest in women\u2019s MMA, I think I have to be in the UFC.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Invicta FC women&#8217;s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg made her highly anticipated UFC debut. 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