Cris Cyborg scored one more win so as to add to her legendary resume at PFL Tampa, however whether or not or not she has competed in MMA for the ultimate time is a query that looms.
Cyborg defeated former UFC veteran Ketlen Vieira, who weighed in at seven kilos over the restrict previous to Saturday’s bout. It was presupposed to be a PFL Ladies’s Featherweight Championship combat, but it surely ended up being a non-title bout because of Vieira’s weigh-in miss. That is Cyborg’s tenth straight win, and he or she has gone unbeaten since struggling a first-round knockout loss to Amanda Nunes again in late 2018.
With PFL present process a significant change amid the Most Beneficial Promotions merger, Cyborg is taking the play it by ear method. Whereas retirement stays on the desk, Cyborg advised reporters through the PFL Tampa post-fight press convention that she is going to let the items fall into place earlier than making a choice (h/t MMAJunkie).
“I need to take a bit of break and see what’s going to occur,” Cyborg stated. “All this 21 years of coaching and all these items that occurred in my life, it’s a studying course of. Even as we speak on this combat I realized lots of issues.
“Twenty-one years I’m on the prime, titles on the road and in the primary occasion. I’m very grateful. I’m excited for what the long run could be. I’m a fighter now, however I’ve lots of plans for the long run at simply 41 years previous. The 41 now’s the brand new 21 years previous.”
Cyborg merely can’t give a definitive reply in the intervening time, however she let or not it’s identified that she doesn’t really feel like she’s ageing even at 41.
“I don’t know if I’m going to have a combat once more,” Cyborg stated. “I’m 41 years previous. … I needed to 30 victories in my profession. No girl did this. I’m very joyful to have damaged yet another document.”
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