On December 29, in the main event of UFC 232, UFC women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg will attempt to defend her title against UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes. Ahead of this fight, Cyborg has had some choice words for her opponent.<\/p>\n
In her latest verbal volley, Cris Cyborg referred to Amanda Nunes as a “traitor” for failing to properly represent Brazil \u2014 and for training at American Top Team, alongside Colby Covington, who has repeatedly disrespected the country of Brazil.<\/p>\n
\u201c’Creonte\u2019 is a Brazilian word that means traitor,\u201d Cris Cyborg said of Amanda Nunes in a recent interview with\u00a0FanSided<\/a>. \u201cI think it\u2019s embarrassing that the UFC made Amanda the first female Brazilian champion and instead of representing Brazil when she fights, she calls herself American Top Team. She disrespects Brazilian MMA fans every time she walks into the cage as a part of American Top Team.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThis is the same gym as Colby Covington,” Cyborg continued. “He disrespected Brazil so badly that the UFC was worried they didn\u2019t have enough security to keep him safe and had to move his fight against [Rafael dos Anjos] to the USA instead of Brazil. Yet Nunes goes into the gym every day to train alongside Colby Covington and even shares the same coaches. Where I\u2019m from in Brazil this would never happen. Imagine\u00a0Chael Sonnen\u00a0walking into Chute Boxe and training with\u00a0Wanderlei Silva,\u00a0Anderson Silva, or any of the coaches. Do you think they would have let him train after all the things he said about Brazil? No. They would have defended Brazil\u2019s honor. Amanda doesn\u2019t have that same respect for Brazil.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen she called me out last year at first I didn\u2019t want to fight her,\u201d Cris Cyborg concluded. \u201cI wanted to see all the women divisions run by the Brazilians. Myself, Amanda, [Jessica] Andrade, we could have all been champions and I thought it would bring pride back to all of Brazil. But Nunes is from a Team of creontes<\/em>. At American Top Team it is normal for teammates to fight each other. She called me out last year but then wanted a year before we can fight. When I fight her December 29 it will be for everyone in Brazil, and it will be to teach Nunes a lesson about respect.\u201d<\/p>\n Cris Cyborg followed up on these comments on Twitter, responding to a fan who reminded that Cyborg is an American citizen \u2014 which would seem, at a glance, to make these comments a little hypocritical.<\/p>\n Just because I became an American citizen doesn\u2019t mean I stopped being Brazilian. I would never represent a team or let a teammate disrespect my country and our people by calling it a dump and us filthy animals<\/p>\n — @CrisCyborg.Com (@criscyborg) September 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n