In case it wasn't clear, from Dana White's constant "I don't know if she can make the weight" rhetoric, Cris Cyborg's management and the UFC are working on putting a fight together between the Invicta featherweight champion and WMMA queenpin (is that a thing?) Ronda Rousey. The fight still may not happen, but it's something that both sides appear to be actively trying to put together, no matter what the UFC's president of operations may be saying in public. Justino's manager, George Prajin, recently spoke to ESPN, about where both sides are in regards to seeing Cris Cyborg in the UFC.
"We're working hand-in-hand with the UFC," Prajin said. "[A Rousey fight by the end of the year] is our common goal, but we have to do it in a way that is beneficial to both of us."
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"The fight in July is definitely going to be at 145," Prajin said. "We need to do it right. She'll cut two to three pounds by summer, maybe she'll make 135 in the fall and then we fight Ronda at the end of the year. That would be OK."
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"We don't want it to be a Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao situation where it takes 10 years to make, after they are both out of their primes," he said. "We want them to be at their best and for it to be considered one of the best fights in the history of the sport."
Of course, this isn't the first time that we've heard Cyborg is working her way to 135. That was supposed to be the plan late last year, with a potential bantamweight bout in Invicta in the works. But, that bout never emerged and injury troubles seemed to sour Justino on the whole idea of the cut in general. Still, with both women continuing to dominate all opposition, and with the amount of attention Rousey attracts, it's hard to see talk of this fight going away any time soon.