'Cyborg' Santos Stripped of Strikeforce Title After Steroid Test, 145 Pound Division Put on Hold

Damn. Dana White lays down the law fast.

Also, you can’t get a win in a title fight if you’re the challenger and you test positive. Looking at you, NSAC/Josh Barnett.

Honestly, there’s good in WMMA for this: instead of Rousey leaping up to an alien division, she and her compatriots at 135 are free to ply their trade without knowing that Cyborg vs _ (where ______ represents her opponent’s grave plot) is going to steal their thunder.

The fact that she had to do roids to dominate a division made up of 2 people and a bunch of blown up 135ers leads me to believe that Mega Megu is still the number 1 p4p WMMA fighter at the moment.

Besides, promoting the 145 division right now is like promoting the HW division in the UFC back when Sylvia was champ… 135 or more appropriately 125 are much more competitive divisions.

This is Dana’s dream come true: One step away from closing down women’s MMA in Zuffa altogether. At some point he’ll say it’s meaningless to have women’s fights if there’s only one weight class and he’ll relegate it to an occasional exhibition fight for a nominal title in Strikeforce. I’ll be surprised if there are any women’s fights in Zuffa after 2012.

This isn’t actually a major issue in the big picture. It’s WMMA.

Every MMA fan in the world should be praising Silva for a last minute triangle that prevented this from being one of the biggest issues of all time. I don’t see how someone could not like Silva, but imagine the shit storm that would have come if he wasn’t so awesome.

I am completely unshocked at this, as is probably pretty much everyone. Good on the commission for actually catching a cheater (assuming the test is correct).

Well that’s one big blow for women’s MMA. Who is their next star? Carano is making movies, Cyborg is roiding….what next?

Damn that sucks. Cyborg is my fav female fighter.

Maybe if Cyborg gets off the PEDs she can lose enough muscle to cut to 135.

and this is all i need to say about this

Rowdy vs Yamanaka for the 145 title.

but it’s only fair. it’s the same thing that happened to Barnett.
let’s see where it goes from here.

and it’s even more hilarious people didn’t see this coming.

First, you’re a regular poster and have seen The Filt speak on steroids hundreds of times by now. You call him out for making a single PED user accusation based on empirical evidence, when you absolutely have to have seen him argue against accusing every fighter with an athletic physique.

based on friendship with fighters? Why so adamant that “dude brah you can’t just claim Cyborg was juicing based on her abnormal jaw which is comparable to Nicole Bass”?

(Yes, you say “Dude brah” in this case)

In this instance, Cyborg does have muscular/masculine features, and was popped for roids. However, that doesn’t mean we should just assume that any muscular woman is using, just because they, “look like they are.” Even if Cyborg wasn’t juicing, she would probably still dwarf the competition because people like Rousey walk around 5 pounds over their fight weight.

It would be like accusing GSP of juicing because he looks bigger than BJ Penn.

That bears jits is horrible.

Rousey beats Tate to win the title and then sometime in the not too distant future fights Gina Carano at 145 for that belt.

if THAT wouldn’t sell than nothing LOL :D

this could help WMMA since for some reason when fighters get popped then come back they will be more well-known……or on the other side of the coin, Cyborg could have just single-handedly destroyed WMMA for the forseeable future (we’re a patented DFW tantrum away from no Zuffa WMMA at all)

she just eats wheaties fuel cereal twice a day with a multi vitamin.

Given the lack of depth across WMMA, it would seem to make the most sense to get everyone into one division and force depth that way.

Or maybe it should be two divisions: > 125 and 126-145, like the men’s UFC in 1997, just to reboot WMMA like you said. Fujii – Rousey just wouldn’t be competitive and it would kill interest in Fujii. The problem is that Strikeforce has never been fully invested in WMMA and you can’t build up any interest with their half-assed attempt of only signing a couple fighters at a time. Grand Prix both divisions with a nice payoff, build up a stable of fighters, and market it like MMA…aka the Bellator way. The reasons for not having enough talent are that there isn’t much incentive for female athletes to pursue full time fighting, and too many promotions merely dipping their toes into an already shallow pool.

Zuffa/SF should just scrap their shabby efforts and let Bellator do the work for them by building up the 4 divisions and then buy them out like they have with all the other number 2 promotions.