By Mike Chiappetta | MMAFighting.com The biggest issue, according to Cyborg’s management firm Primetime 360, was Zuffa treating Cyborg as a bit player rather than an event co-star. “Every pay-per-view megafight requires two participants, and they weren’t giving Cris her just credit,” Primetime 360 partner George Prajin told MMA Fighting. …
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Source | TMZ Rousey has made it clear … the only way she will fight the 145-pound Santos is if Cyborg drops down to the 135 lb weight class — where Ronda currently reigns supreme. Cyborg’s response? “Meet me at 140 lbs” … adding, “Then ask her if I’m a …
by Ben Fowlkes |source: MMAJunkie.com Tito Ortiz has a plan. It’s detailed and forward-thinking and not terribly flexible, but still, it’s a plan. He seems pretty sure that it’s a good one. UFC President Dana White seems to feel differently, but what else is new? “I made so many mistakes …
Source | MMAJunkie.com Fomer Strikeforce women’s featherweight champion Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos has joined the Invicta FC roster and faces Brazilian compatriot Ediane “India” Gomes at Invicta FC 5 on April 5 in Kansas City, Mo. Santos’ signing was officially announced on Friday during “Inside MMA” on AXS TV. The announcement …
Because the UFC® is not investing in a 145lbs women division at the moment, it only made sense that Cyborg be released from the UFC®. Cyborgs manager (Tito Ortiz), requested that this happen. Explained a little more on inside MMA, about his request to Dana White. Source | AXSTV®
by Steven Marrocco | Source: MMAJunkie.com Rousey’s octagon debut date is unknown, according to White, though it will be on a UFC pay-per-view card. And unless a champion of greater weight is on the card, Rousey will headline. As for the first opponent to meet the women’s MMA superstar, White …
By Melissa Segura | SI.com UFC president Dana White tells SI.com he’s working on a female division of the UFC, largely because of Rousey’s influence. “It’s absolutely going to happen,” White said Tuesday of the women’s division. The inclusion of women in the sport’s highest ranks is an about-face for …
source: sherdog.com “I think Cyborg really doesn’t have any other options besides me,” Rousey told the Sherdog Radio Network’s “It’s Time” show with Bruce Buffer. “I think she’s a victim of her own cheating, whereas when she was doped up and she looked like she was so head-over-heels above all these …
by Marcelo Barone | source: tatame.com “I watched all fights but on the last one, Ronda’s, a woman working on the event came to tell me I had to leave because the commission doesn’t accept suspended athletes on the shows. My manager talked to the guys at the commission and there’s really …
by Jerry Sullivan | source: ocbj.com The launch of Primetime 360 Entertainment & Sports Management Inc. comes about a month after Ortiz was inducted into the UFC Hall of Fame. George Prajin, an attorney and longtime friend of Ortiz’, is a partner in the agency, which will seek to represent mixed …
Source: mmafighting.com “If she wants to fight me than she is going to have to find a way to come down to 135,” she said. “We’ll see how she does in a fair fight for once in her life. She has a history of coming in overweight to fights and I …
by Mike Chiappetta / source: mmafighting.com “I really wanna fight Ronda,” she said on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “I really want to. She says bad things about me. I never say bad things about my opponent. I want to do my best in the octagon, and if she says …