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Strikeforce Champ Ronda Rousey says Cris Cyborg needs to come to her
Aug 19, 2012 - 3:15:23 PM Strikeforce Champ Ronda Rousey says Cris Cyborg needs to come to her

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

After notching yet another sub-60-second armbar win on Saturday night, Strikeforce Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey once again called out suspended former Strikeforce Women's Featherweight Champion Cris Cyborg.

It's a fight that can't happen until Cyborg's suspension runs its course, but Rousey also remains steadfast in her demand that the fight be contested at 135 lbs. It's something she won't budge on, because Cyborg's tainted her name by a failed steroid test.

"She was champion and I knew she was doping, but I couldn't prove it," Rousey said at Saturday's post-event press conference (transcribed by MMAJunkie.com). "That was how she wanted to become a champion. Now the situation is changed, and she was stripped of her title for good reason. Now she has to come to me – I don't owe her anything. She needs to fight me more than I need to fight her. There are plenty of girls – they all want to beat me up now. Who else is she going to fight, really? She needs to come to me."

Penick's Analysis: With Cyborg out of action until early next year, I'd expect Rousey to have one more fight this fall/winter, and then they can see whether or not Cyborg will even attempt a move to 135 lbs. I'm not sure who she'll fight in that next bout, but if she can continue finding ways to armbar everyone left and right it's not really going to matter, either. What she does, she does so well that it's simply fascinating to watch. The trip she used to go right into mount, then right into that armbar was fantastic, and she leaves people wanting to see her time and time again.