Former Strikeforce women's featherweight champion Cristiane \"Cyborg\" Santos (10-1 MMA, 4-0 SF) has made it clear she is not a Ronda Rousey (6-0 MMA, 4-0 SF) fan. <\/p>\n
And while she would be more than happy to step into the cage with \"Rowdy,\" especially after the current Strikeforce female bantamweight champion called her out, Santos has been medically advised against trying to make 135 pounds. <\/p>\n
With that in mind, Santos said she's done talking about Rousey and any potential fight for the bantamweight title. If Rousey wants to prove her worth, Santos said, let her come back to 145 pounds to do it the same place she started her Strikeforce career. <\/p>\n
\"I get many questions about Ronda Rousey, and I would like to set the record straight for the last time, as I do not consider her much personally, much less as a fighter,\" Santos told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) through an interpreter. \"She claims she is the champion and openly challenges me to fight at 135 pounds, which I find laughable. She competed in the Beijing Olympics at 154 pounds and fought at 145 pounds in MMA until she learned she would have to fight me and then dropped to 135 pounds. <\/p>\n
\"I have never fought below 145 pounds, and I am considered the pound-for-pound top woman fighter in the world. I have yet to lose a fight while holding the Strikeforce 145-pound title. My last fight was considered a no contest, but that has not changed the fact that I am the women's 145-pound champion.\" <\/p>\n
Santos, who made her Strikeforce debut in April 2009, was stripped of the Strikeforce women's featherweight title one month after a post-fight drug test at \"Strikeforce: Melendez vs. Masvidal\" turned up positive for stanozolol metabolites in late 2011. <\/p>\n
The California State Athletic Commission, which oversaw the event, suspended Santos for one year and fined her $2,500. Additionally, her first-round TKO of Hiroko Yamanaka was also overturned to a no-contest. <\/p>\n
Rousey, who was 2-0 in Strikeforce's 145-pound division, dropped to 135 pounds earlier this year and promptly earned the promotion's female bantamweight title by submitting then-champion Miesha Tate. This past Saturday night, the former Olympic judoka defended the title by submitting former champion Sarah Kaufman in just 54 seconds. <\/p>\n
Following the win, Rousey called out Santos and challenged her to come down to 135 pounds. <\/p>\n
\"I need to send out a challenge to Ms. Cyborg, there,\" Rousey said after her victory. \"People want to see you have the first fair fight of your life. I'm the champ now. The champ doesn't go to you. You go to the champ. Come down to 135 and let's settle this.\" <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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