{"id":82323,"date":"2019-09-04T05:38:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T11:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=82323"},"modified":"2019-09-04T05:46:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T11:46:03","slug":"bellator-signs-cris-cyborg-to-the-biggest-contract-in-womens-mma-history-breaking-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=82323","title":{"rendered":"Bellator Signs Cris &#8220;Cyborg&#8221; to the Biggest Contract in Women&#8217;s MMA History &#8211; Breaking News!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=82323\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=82323\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-82324 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Cristiane__Cyborg__Santos_40618979464-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Cristiane__Cyborg__Santos_40618979464-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Cristiane__Cyborg__Santos_40618979464-768x908.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Cristiane__Cyborg__Santos_40618979464-866x1024.jpg 866w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Cristiane__Cyborg__Santos_40618979464.jpg 1367w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/><\/a>Bellator is proud to announce the signing of Cristiane \u201cCyborg\u201d Justino (21-2, 1 NC) to the organization. The deal \u2013 the largest of its kind in women\u2019s MMA history \u2013 exclusively secures \u201cCyborg\u2019s\u201d talents with a multi-year, multi-fight contract.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCyborg\u201d joins current champ Julia Budd, Olga Rubin, Arlene Blencowe, Janay Harding and Leslie Smith among others, cementing Bellator\u2019s 145-pound weight class as the strongest women\u2019s featherweight division in MMA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCyborg\u201d joins Bellator following a three-year run in UFC, multiple world titles and a 20-fight unbeaten streak that includes notable victories against Holly Holm, Tonya Evinger, Marloes Coenen and Leslie Smith. Notably, the 34-year-old Curitiba, Brazil-native was the inaugural Strikeforce Women\u2019s Featherweight Champion, defeating Gina Carano for the title in 2009.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7HsDxbj3jBo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\u201cI have worked with countless athletes over my thirty-plus years of promoting combat sports, but there is no one quite like \u2018Cyborg\u2019,\u201d Bellator President Scott Coker said. \u201cHer ability to excite the crowd from the moment she makes her walk to the cage is special, and having had the pleasure of promoting several of her fights in the past, I am looking forward to the opportunity of promoting her once again. \u2018Cyborg\u2019 is the most dominant female fighter in the history of the sport and she will be a perfect fit here at Bellator, where champion Julia Budd and the other women that make up best female featherweight division in the world have eagerly awaited her arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Please visit Bellator.com for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] Bellator is proud to announce the signing of Cristiane \u201cCyborg\u201d Justino (21-2, 1 NC) to the organization. The deal \u2013 the largest of its kind in women\u2019s MMA history \u2013 exclusively secures \u201cCyborg\u2019s\u201d talents with a multi-year, multi-fight contract. \u201cCyborg\u201d joins current champ Julia Budd, Olga Rubin, Arlene Blencowe, Janay Harding and Leslie Smith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10374],"tags":[20635],"class_list":["post-82323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma-2","tag-bellator-signs-cris-cyborg-to-the-biggest-contract-in-womens-mma-history-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82323"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}