It's been well over a year since Cris "Cyborg" Santos last stepped into a cage for an actual MMA fight.

The last 15-plus months were filled with interviews about her suspension from the sport for using a banned substance, a heated rivalry with Ronda Rousey, exiting both Strikeforce and the UFC and finally signing a multi-fight deal with Invicta FC.

Santos has been doing a lot of talking, but her passion was always to get back in the cage and back up her words with her fists. It wasn't long ago that she was the top-ranked woman in MMAan absolute wrecking machine that mauled opponent after opponent.

Lately, however, instead of being called the best women's fighter on the planet, Santos is better known as a rival to Rousey in a fight that still may never happen. Like she was gunning for the iron throne in Westeros, Santos is hell-bent on reclaiming her spot as the most feared woman in MMA.

Cyborg is the same assassin she's always beennow it's just time to remind everybody what she's capable of doing to her opposition.

"I don't think I need to prove anything but I think I need to do the same as I did in the other fights. I want to do the best fight and try to go for the knockout all the time," Santos told Bleacher Report. "Be aggressive as my other fights. I think people know my training, and they know what I did already. Win or lose, I always try to do my best."

During her time away from active competition, Santos signed on with former UFC light heavyweight champion Tito Ortiz as her new management. Since then, Ortiz has gone on a tireless campaign to push Santos back into the spotlight and even trained with her as she prepared for her return to action.

"She is Wanderlei Silva in her prime," said Ortiz. "She doesn't mind getting punched, she likes the takedowns, she likes to spar, she likes to train, she's the world champion. To be 10-1 and stop people, dominate people, her career speaks for itself."

If one black mark continues to haunt her, it's the suspension she faced for using a banned substance, which earned her a year away from the sport. She continues to be accused of cheating, but Ortiz says it was a mistake that she's owned up to and won't make again.

"People judge by one little mistake that she did because she tried to make weight easier, and you can't judge a book by its cover by her last fight," stated Ortiz. "People say you're only as good as you're last fight, well she knocked out her last opponent, and for the substance that was illegal at the time that she took, it was strictly taken to cut the weight. No more than that."

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Cris 'Cyborg' Santos has in the past refused to drop 10 pounds to fight star Ronda Rousey.

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Let's get this straight from the start: It's not that mixed martial artist Michelle Waterson doesn't appreciate the honor of headlining Friday night's Invicta 5 promotion in Kansas City. It's just that as a fan of women's MMA -- not just as a practitioner of it -- she has a confession to make: "I would love to be able to fight first and then watch the rest of the girls," she says.

Hardcore female fight fans understand why.

Invicta, the women's-only fight promotion, celebrates its one-year anniversary by hosting what many industry insiders suggest might be the best all-female fight card ever assembled. Invicta co-founders Shannon Knapp and Janet Martin have bet good money -- their own money, in fact -- on the concept that fight fans will pay $9.95 to watch an online stream of legitimate female fighters show off their legitimate skills. The promotion isn't peddling the notions of celebrity (there's only one Ronda Rousey), or history (like the inaugural UFC female fight last February), but in the simple belief in its viability (show good fights and fans will pay good money).

The business plan is as straightforward as it is scary. After all, it was only two years ago that UFC president and de facto industry boss Dana White derided women fighters and declared that they would never fight in the UFC. Nor have legacy sports like basketball or boxing presented a blueprint for the economic and cultural success of female athletes.

It's not that the mainstream masses don't want to watch females fight. The franchising of The Real Housewives of Wherever -- complete with its table throwing and bickering -- proves otherwise. Invicta 5 features a helping of the kind of personal vendetta and catty sniping that anchors the Bravo network's reality programming in the Bec Hyatt (4-2-0) matchup with Yasminka Cive (5-0-0). Their beef stems from an exchange of Twitter slights that results in this promo video. As former Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker succinctly put it me last January, "Anytime you've got fighters with personal beef, it's always a great matchup."

Hyatt-Cive won't undermine that conventional wisdom. Hyatt, a 24-year-old upstart fighter with her bleach blonde hair shorn punk-style, has gained a cult following in her short tenure on the WMMA circuit. The Australian showed sprightliness and grit in her short-notice loss to strawweight champion Carla Esparza last January that was both endearing and entertaining. But she'll need more than fan support when facing Cive, an Austrian with an impressive kickboxing resume and an MMA curriculum vitae that includes four consecutive knockouts and an amateur bout in November 2010 against a male opponent that ended in a draw.

But the Hyatt-Cive bout won't be more compelling than the return of Cris "Cyborg" Santos to the cage. The most dominant fighter of the pre-Rousey era of WMMA -- she ended the fighting career of Gina Carano, after all -- will fight for the first time in 16 months after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

The central question in Cyborg's faceoff with replacement opponent Fiona Muxlow isn't if she'll win but how she'll appear doing it. UFC president White dismissed Cyborg as "irrelevant" in February after the 27-year-old Brazilian with perhaps the most potent punch-out power on the women's circuit, refused to drop down from her 145-pound featherweight division to the 135-pound bantamweight class where Rousey looms. It's fair to assume that any and every opponent is simply a sparring match until Cyborg tests her striking against Rousey's judo. Cyborg isn't fighting to simply win fights but to regain relevance in a women's fight field that has moved on without her.

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Let's get this straight from the start: It's not that mixed martial artist Michelle Waterson doesn't appreciate the honor of headlining Friday night's Invicta 5 promotion in Kansas City. It's just that as a fan of women's MMA -- not just as a practitioner of it -- she has a confession to make: "I would love to be able to fight first and then watch the rest of the girls," she says.

Hardcore female fight fans understand why.

Invicta, the women's-only fight promotion, celebrates its one-year anniversary by hosting what many industry insiders suggest might be the best all-female fight card ever assembled. Invicta co-founders Shannon Knapp and Janet Martin have bet good money -- their own money, in fact -- on the concept that fight fans will pay $9.95 to watch an online stream of legitimate female fighters show off their legitimate skills. The promotion isn't peddling the notions of celebrity (there's only one Ronda Rousey), or history (like the inaugural UFC female fight last February), but in the simple belief in its viability (show good fights and fans will pay good money).

The business plan is as straightforward as it is scary. After all, it was only two years ago that UFC president and de facto industry boss Dana White derided women fighters and declared that they would never fight in the UFC. Nor have legacy sports like basketball or boxing presented a blueprint for the economic and cultural success of female athletes.

It's not that the mainstream masses don't want to watch females fight. The franchising of The Real Housewives of Wherever -- complete with its table throwing and bickering -- proves otherwise. Invicta 5 features a helping of the kind of personal vendetta and catty sniping that anchors the Bravo network's reality programming in the Bec Hyatt (4-2-0) matchup with Yasminka Cive (5-0-0). Their beef stems from an exchange of Twitter slights that results in this promo video. As former Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker succinctly put it me last January, "Anytime you've got fighters with personal beef, it's always a great matchup."

Hyatt-Cive won't undermine that conventional wisdom. Hyatt, a 24-year-old upstart fighter with her bleach blonde hair shorn punk-style, has gained a cult following in her short tenure on the WMMA circuit. The Australian showed sprightliness and grit in her short-notice loss to strawweight champion Carla Esparza last January that was both endearing and entertaining. But she'll need more than fan support when facing Cive, an Austrian with an impressive kickboxing resume and an MMA curriculum vitae that includes four consecutive knockouts and an amateur bout in November 2010 against a male opponent that ended in a draw.

But the Hyatt-Cive bout won't be more compelling than the return of Cris "Cyborg" Santos to the cage. The most dominant fighter of the pre-Rousey era of WMMA -- she ended the fighting career of Gina Carano, after all -- will fight for the first time in 16 months after testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs.

The central question in Cyborg's faceoff with replacement opponent Fiona Muxlow isn't if she'll win but how she'll appear doing it. UFC president White dismissed Cyborg as "irrelevant" in February after the 27-year-old Brazilian with perhaps the most potent punch-out power on the women's circuit, refused to drop down from her 145-pound featherweight division to the 135-pound bantamweight class where Rousey looms. It's fair to assume that any and every opponent is simply a sparring match until Cyborg tests her striking against Rousey's judo. Cyborg isn't fighting to simply win fights but to regain relevance in a women's fight field that has moved on without her.

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Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos returns to the cage after a nearly 16-month layoff to face Fiona Muxlow at Invicta Fighting Championships 5 this evening.

Prior to the bout, the former Strikeforce featherweight champ said she still has her eyes set on a superfight with UFC bantamweight title holder Ronda Rousey.

The Brazilian powerhouse believes that Rousey and UFC President Dana White are the ones to blame for the enticing match up not happening yet (via MMA Fighting). "Ask Dana White if he wants to make the fight," Santos said. "Ask Ronda if she wants the fight. I will fight her. I'm not afraid of anyone. You have to ask them why they don't want to make the fight."

Santos was under a contract with Zuffa LLC from her Strikeforce days and looked to finalize a deal with the UFC that eventually culminated with a 140-pound catchweight bout with Rousey.

However, when the terms of the deal could not be agreed upon, Cyborg asked for her release and signed with Invicta FC.

Santos has been on the shelf ever since she failed a post-fight drug test in Dec. 2011 where she tested positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol.

As a result, the California State Athletic Commission suspended Santos for one year and fined her $2,500.

Heading into Friday night's bout with Muxlow, Santos is 10-1(1) in her professional MMA career, with her only loss coming in her pro debut in May 2005.

On the other hand, Muxlow enters the contest with a record of 6-2, most recently suffering a submission loss to Marloes Coenen in December.

The bout was contested under the Dream banner and the loss broke a three-fight win streak for Muxlow.

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Having rejected an offer to join the UFC, Cris Cyborg Santos makes her Invicta debut April 5. (AP)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. The last time Cris Cyborg Santos fought professionally, Newt Gingrich was the front-runner in the Republican presidential primaries, Breaking Dawn: Part I had just hit theaters and an upstart judoka by the name of Ronda Rousey showed promise with her second win on the Strikeforce circuit.

Needless to say, much has changed since Santos was the face of womens MMA.

Since Santos received a one-year suspension for testing positive for stanozolol leading up to her Dec. 17, 2011 fight with Hiroko Yamanaka, Rousey rose from niche sport newcomer to mainstream sports icon; the all-female fighting promotion Invicta launched while Strikeforce went the way of Gingrich; and UFC president Dana White 180ed on his position that women were too pretty to fight, placed them as headliners on the UFC 157 card, and slapped Santos with perhaps the cruelest insult when he labeled her irrelevant. (Oh, and Twilight fans watched Alice and Edward kiss in advance of their happily-ever-after ending in Breaking Dawn: Part II, in case you were wondering.)

Its been a tough time, said Santos, 27, relaxing on the couch of her Holiday Inn hotel room Thursday night as she prepared for her return to the ring against Australias Fiona Muxlow as part of Friday nights Invicta 5 fight card. Banana bunches, hardboiled eggs, and half-empty bottles of Pedialyte the hallmarks of her weight cut to 145 pounds are spread before her on a coffee table.

A tough time thats about as much as a reticent Santos will reveal about her 16-month layoff but talk to anyone in her inner circle and theyll tick off a list of indignities ranging from her mounting bills to her dwindling bank accounts, the sponsors who hightailed it away from her, her divorce from fellow fighter Evangelista Santos, and perhaps the worst of it all the Strikeforce incident.

It was Aug. 18, 2012 eight months into her steroid suspension when Strikeforce hosted its main event, Ronda Rousey versus Sarah Kaufman, near Santos San Diego apartment. As the former Strikeforce featherweight champion, Santos expected to sit where all the fighters do: cageside, where fighters can get a close-up of their potential opponents and television cameras can capture the fighters reactions. But when Santos arrived, she discovered shed been banished to the bleachers, high above the cage and far from the TV sightlines. When a friend fighting on the card found out about her seat placement, he sent her a ticket for a floor seat from his allotment.But again, Strikeforce officials shepherded her to the top of the stairs and back of the arena.

It really bothered her, says George Prajin, who manages Santos along with UFC Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz.

But Santos says the year off, brutal as it was, offered her a chance to re-evaluate her career, her future, and the weaknesses in her game. She focused on improving her jiu-jitsu to balance out her potent punching power, changed management, and with the help of Ortiz, opened her own gym in her native Brazil called The Rock.The gym is part of Ortizs and Prajins plan to extend her brand beyond the cage.

In one of her first conversations with Ortiz, Santos told him, When I beat Gina Carano and won the [Strikeforce featherweight] belt, my life didnt change, my bank account didnt change.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. The last time Cris Cyborg Santos fought professionally, Newt Gingrich was the front-runner in the Republican presidential primaries, Breaking Dawn: Part I had just hit theaters and an upstart judoka by the name of Ronda Rousey showed promise with her second win on the Strikeforce circuit.

Needless to say, much has changed since Santos was the face of womens MMA.

Since Santos received a one-year suspension for testing positive for stanozolol leading up to her Dec. 17, 2011 fight with Hiroko Yamanaka, Rousey rose from niche sport newcomer to mainstream sports icon; the all-female fighting promotion Invicta launched while Strikeforce went the way of Gingrich; and UFC president Dana White 180ed on his position that women were too pretty to fight, placed them as headliners on the UFC 157 card, and slapped Santos with perhaps the cruelest insult when he labeled her irrelevant. (Oh, and Twilight fans watched Alice and Edward kiss in advance of their happily-ever-after ending in Breaking Dawn: Part II, in case you were wondering.)

Its been a tough time, said Santos, 27, relaxing on the couch of her Holiday Inn hotel room Thursday night as she prepared for her return to the ring against Australias Fiona Muxlow as part of Friday nights Invicta 5 fight card. Banana bunches, hardboiled eggs, and half-empty bottles of Pedialyte the hallmarks of her weight cut to 145 pounds are spread before her on a coffee table.

A tough time thats about as much as a reticent Santos will reveal about her 16-month layoff but talk to anyone in her inner circle and theyll tick off a list of indignities ranging from her mounting bills to her dwindling bank accounts, the sponsors who hightailed it away from her, her divorce from fellow fighter Evangelista Santos, and perhaps the worst of it all the Strikeforce incident.

It was Aug. 18, 2012 eight months into her steroid suspension when Strikeforce hosted its main event, Ronda Rousey versus Sarah Kaufman, near Santos San Diego apartment. As the former Strikeforce featherweight champion, Santos expected to sit where all the fighters do: cageside, where fighters can get a close-up of their potential opponents and television cameras can capture the fighters reactions. But when Santos arrived, she discovered shed been banished to the bleachers, high above the cage and far from the TV sightlines. When a friend fighting on the card found out about her seat placement, he sent her a ticket for a floor seat from his allotment.But again, Strikeforce officials shepherded her to the top of the stairs and back of the arena.

It really bothered her, says George Prajin, who manages Santos along with UFC Hall of Famer Tito Ortiz.

But Santos says the year off, brutal as it was, offered her a chance to re-evaluate her career, her future, and the weaknesses in her game. She focused on improving her jiu-jitsu to balance out her potent punching power, changed management, and with the help of Ortiz, opened her own gym in her native Brazil called The Rock.The gym is part of Ortizs and Prajins plan to extend her brand beyond the cage.

In one of her first conversations with Ortiz, Santos told him, When I beat Gina Carano and won the [Strikeforce featherweight] belt, my life didnt change, my bank account didnt change.

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As long as the fighter is licensed by a commission, Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos is willing to step into the cage against anyone, including male-to-female transgender fighter Fallon Fox.

The former Strikeforce women's featherweight champ recently spoke with Josh Gross of ESPN.com about the controversy surrounding Fox's quest to become a licensed female fighter.

She wants to be a girl. I don't agree. I think you're born a girl, you're a girl. You're born a guy, you're a guy. But I don't choose opponents. The commission needs to check and make sure she doesn't have testosterone.

In a story broken by Loretta Hunt, Fox revealed to Sports Illustrated she had undergone sex reassignment surgery back in 2006, which also included supplemental hormonal therapy.

The fallout from the story has included a heated debate involving the ethical standards set by the sport. During an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, UFC commentator Joe Rogan argues that while Fox has undergone the necessary surgical augmentations, she still has the bone density and physical makeup of a man.

Former Strikeforce women's bantamweight champ Miesha Tate told ESPN.com she wouldn't fight Fox based on fears and questions involving her own personal safety.

Cyborg, on the other hand, has no qualms about fighting Fox, as long as she passes the necessary requirements for licensure.

Even though she was born a woman, Cyborg can relate to some of the cruelties faced by Fox in the media and amongst MMA fans.

People tell me on Twitter: 'I think you have a d---.' A lot of bad things, they say. I think people have a small mind. They don't think a girl can punch hard like a man. I think people are ignorant. People are stupid. I don't want to be the same as people who do that.

...I'm not going to judge other people. If the commission says she can fight, why not?

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The rivalry between former Strikeforce women's champion Cris "Cyborg" Santos and current UFC bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey doesn't seem to slow down despite the fact that they are in two different organizations with little hope of facing one another in at least the next year.

Still, it's hard to ignore that fire that burns between the two women as rarely can one of them go a single interview without the other's name coming up.

As Cyborg prepares for her debut in Invicta FC following more than a year away from the sport after testing positive for a banned substance in 2011, she's lasered in on the task at hand of getting her career back on track. That doesn't mean, however, that the desire to destroy Rousey is ever far from her mind.

The history between Cyborg and Rousey goes back to November 2011 when the former Olympic Judo medalist defeated Julia Budd at a Strikeforce Challengers show while competing at 145 pounds. At the time, Rousey said she was ready to drop down to bantamweight and challenge champion Miesha Tate, but Cyborg was already looking at her as a potential opponent at featherweight.

Following her win over Hiroko Yamanaka in Strikeforce almost exactly a month later, Cyborg reveals that she asked to face Rousey, but didn't get the answer she was expecting.

"I don't want to talk trash about somebody, I want to prove it inside the cage. When she was in my weight class she said 'I want to fight Cris Cyborg' and when I had my last fight against Hiroko (Yamanaka) I talked to Sean Shelby, the matchmaker at Strikeforce, and I said 'I want Ronda next.' He said 'no, she's not ready for you' and after that fight she's talking bad about me but you guys protected her," Santos revealed in an interview with Bleacher Report

"Because after my fight I told them I want to fight her and they said no she's not ready for you."

In Cyborg's opinion, Rousey was being protected and continues to live under the same shield of protection right now. The Brazilian isn't sure why a fighter that competed in the Olympics at 154 pounds, then fought MMA at 145 pounds, insists that it's Santos who drops down to bantamweight for their fight to finally happen.

"She fought at 154 (pounds) in Judo, and I think who is running? It's not me. I fight at 145, she fought at 145, who's running from this fight? Not me," said Cyborg. "People need to see the fact to see who's running."

Currently, Cyborg is about to embark on the first of a three-fight deal with Invicta FC with the goal being to win her fight next weekend and then move onto a featherweight title fight against fellow former Strikeforce champion Marloes Coenen.

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An injury has forced one of the major bouts at Invicta 5, which is coming up next weekend, to make a change as Ediane Gomes has suffered an injury and is out of her scheduled fight against former Strikeforce champ Cris "Cyborg" Santos.

Invicta officials announced Gomes' injury on Tuesday, but it didn't take long for them to find a replacement and it happens to be somebody else already scheduled for the card.

Fiona Muxlow, who was originally scheduled to face off against Julia Budd on the card, will instead face Santos as one of the featured bouts on the Invicta 5 internet pay-per-view.

The new fight was confirmed by Invicta officials on Tuesday evening.

Fiona Muxlow comes to Invicta with a 6-2 record overall primarily fighting out of her home area in Australia.

Ironically enough, Muxlow's last fight was a loss to current Invicta 145-pound contender Marloes Coenen at the DREAM New Year's Eve show to close 2012. Muxlow lost to Coenen by first round armbar in Japan.

The expected plan for the winner of the bout between Santos and Muxlow is to face Coenen next for the inaugural Invicta featherweight women's world title.

Muxlow is facing a tall order stepping in on short notice to face Santos, who returns to action after more than a year away from the sport after testing positive for a banned substance following her last fight in Strikeforce at the end of 2011.

Since that time, Santos has exited Strikeforce after the promotion dissolved, and with her fighting weight at 145-pounds, she's ineligible to sign with the UFC because they only currently have the 135-pound women's division.

Instead, Santos signed a multi-fight deal with Invicta with hopes of fighting next weekend, and then battling Coenen for the first ever featherweight title for the promotion.

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Indie designer Endre Barath has released the follow-up to his "pay-if-you-like" sci-fi first-person adventure game Dead Cyborg.

Dead Cyborg: Episode 2 continues the saga as an amnesiac explores a ruinous corroded world after awakening from cryosleep eons after the apocalypse. I played the first Dead Cyborg back in the day and while I had issues with its arbitrary puzzle design, poorly translated text, and peculiar lack of mouse support, I admired its haunting, decrepit environments and exploration of such sci-fi tropes as identity, religion, and the meaning of life. It was especially impressive being the work of only one man.

This sequel finally adds mouse support - like every other first-person game from the last 20 years - so that already makes it several degrees better than the original.

As the Dead Cyborg episodes are a pay-what-you-want affair Barath will use whatever donations he accrues to fund the next episode. According the the official site, Dead Cyborg: Episode 2 fell $300 under its goal, but that was close enough that Barath made it anyway. It looks like Episode 3 is already 10 per cent underway and at one point the series was rated 57th on Steam Greenlight.

Check out the trailer for Dead Cyborg: Episode 2 below and if you're intrigued, feel free to download it for PC, Mac and Linux at the official Dead Cyborg site.

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. Automation only goes so far and for all Watson's Jeopardy wins, there are still many, many tasks on which computers are terrible and humans are effortlessly amazing. Like understanding language, say, or knowing what's happening in a photograph.

There is an analogy to be made to one of Google's other impressive projects: Google Translate. What looks like machine intelligence is actually only a recombination of human intelligence. Translate relies on massive bodies of text that have been translated into different languages by humans; it then is able to extract words and phrases that match up. The algorithms are not actually that complex, but they work because of the massive amounts of data (i.e. human intelligence) that go into the task on the front end.

Google Maps has executed a similar operation. Humans are coding every bit of the logic of the road onto a representation of the world so that computers can simply duplicate (infinitely, instantly) the judgments that a person already made.

The Times story is well worth reading for its catalog of similar operations at other companies like Twitter, Apple, IBM, and some startups. The point is not that machines are not powerful or that humans are irreplaceable in some fixed sense. The point is that the best services are cyborg: they arise from the combination of machine and human intelligences.

As Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline, the co-coiners of the term "cyborg," wrote in 1960, "The purpose of the Cyborg, as well as his own homeostatic systems, is to provide an organizational system in which such robot-like problems are taken care of automatically and unconsciously, leaving man free to explore, to create, to think, and to feel."

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Although Ronda Rousey has solidified herself as a UFC champion and a legitimate pay-per-view draw, questions about a superfight with Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos still linger.

But while a superfight between the two once seemed within the UFC's power to orchestrate, Cyborg is now a non-issue in her foe's career.

Most recently, UFC president Dana White summed up Cyborg as "irrelevant"(via MMA Weekly), stressing that his company was done dealing with the Brazilian.

Unsurprisingly, Rousey echoed similar sentiments in an interview with Sportsnet anchor Joe Ferraro during a recent media run. As the champion stated, Cyborg doesn't deserve special treatment when it's "obvious" that she can lose some muscle weight:

[Cyborg is] obviously not willing to go through the effort to go for the fight. Here's what it is.If you're pumped full of steroids and the lightest you can get it 145, then it's obvious the lightest you can get without steroids is lighter.

She refuses to do that and it's justI really don't know where this sense of entitlement comes from. She hasn't had a recorded win in over three years. I mean, there's so many other women. Look at Sara McMann. She's undefeated, a silver [Olympics] medalist wrestler...people like that are the people we should be looking forward to fighting.

Cyborg's weight issues and positive test for anabolic steroidsin January 2012 have been consistent talking points for Rousey during the last couple of years. With the UFC just recently adopting a 135-pound women's division, the scrutiny has only increased.

As the champion has noted, Cyborg's supposed inability to drop weight hints at years of doping, with Rousey tellingInside MMAthat Cyborg was "cheating for her entire career."

Hence, the UFC's first women's champion would only accept a superfight with Cyborg at the 135-pound bantamweight limit, with the UFC even preparing to enlist famed MMA nutritionist Mike Dolce to help the Brazilian shed her extra body weight.

But with no catchweight bout in sight and no women's featherweight division to accommodate Cyborg, she instead left the UFC under the advice of her new coach, retired UFC champion Tito Ortiz. However, Rousey states that Cyborg was owed nothing and deserved less:

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