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Lina Lansberg promises to make 'beatable' 'Cyborg' Justino 'bleed a lot' at UFN 95

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#1 ·
For those who aren't entirely familiar to "The Elbow Princess".

There's also a nice video interview with her in the source site.

Lina Lansberg is positive it's going to be different this time, that she’s not going to end up like all the rest. But saying you can beat Cristiane Justino is one thing. Actually doing it? Well that proven to be nearly impossible.

Lansberg (6-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC) will have her chance to slow down the Justino (16-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) freight train on Sept. 24 when she headlines UFC Fight Night 95 at Nilson Nelson Gymnasium in Brasilia, Brazil. The 140-pound catchweight bout tops the FS1-televised lineup following early prelims on UFC Fight Pass.

“Cyborg” enters the contest on a 17-fight unbeaten streak with the past 15 of those victories coming by knockout (nine in the first round). She’s the most dominant force in women’s MMA history and hasn’t lost since her pro debut in May 2005. That’s an impressive resume, but one Landsberg said she’s not intimidated by, even in her UFC debut.

“It’s tough for them to find opponents for Cris, and I’ve had a lot of standup fights before, so I do understand why they chose me,” Landberg told MMAjunkie. “Of course I was familiar with her. I know some of the others as well, but I have been following her for years in muay Thai and in MMA. I know her well.

“Definitely she beats opponents before they get in the cage. When she gets in there, and you see it in her last fight against (Leslie) Smith. You saw it from the start that she was beat waking to the cage. It’s definitely the biggest reason to why she wins all the time.”

So what makes Lansberg different? Nearly every fighter who’s stepped in the cage with Justino has believed they brought something unique to the table that could lead to the win. For Landsberg, she said it’s a combination of traits, including her ability to out-strike Justino.

“I’ve been fighting muay Thai for so many years now,” Lansberg said. “I have 85 or 90 fights, many of them in the European and world championships. I’ve fought against (Valentina) Shevchenko, who is fighting in the UFC now. I fought her in the finals of a world championship match. I’ve done it for many years, and I’ve won several gold medals in the European championship and the world championship.

“I’ve been preparing for something like this for a long time. I’ve been traveling the world to fight before, and it’s a lot of pressure, but it’s the way I want it to be. That’s the fun part as well. The bigger, the better.”

When UFC officials announced Landsberg vs. Justino, skepticism soon followed. Justino made a successful octagon debut at UFC 198 in May, when she steamrolled Smith via 81-second TKO and said she’s interested in facing the likes of Ronda Rousey, Miesha Tate and Holly Holm. Lansberg, meanwhile, has never fought for the UFC or even faced an opponent in MMA who’s competed in the organization.

Still, Landsberg likes her odds. On top of having a striking background, the Swede said she brings something to the table that Justino’s previous foes have severely lacked: mental toughness.

“Everything is mental 100 percent,” Lansberg said. “It’s a mental game. The technique and the physics is just a small part of it. It’s the mental gave that’s most important. I’m comfortable with that, and I work a lot mentally right now, as well, and I have for quite a while with my coach and with a psychologist. It’s a mental game.

“I’m lucky I’m not Cris in this actually because I know the feeling when you go into a fight and you have everything to lose and nothing to win really. I wouldn’t like to be her in this fight. It’s much better to be me to be the underdog and have everything to win.”

Lansberg said she expects a standup fight with Justino at UFC Fight Night 95, but she’s also prepared to grapple if it goes to the mat. Nicknamed “Elbow Princess,” Lansberg unsurprisingly enjoys fighting from the clinch and landing elbows, which have a tendency to cause cuts.

That’s one of the ways she plans to attack and slow down her opponent, she said.

“I love elbows,” Lansberg said. “They make everybody bleed so much, and I love that. It will be so much fun. She’s tough, and she’s going to bleed a lot. That’s why I do it. I’m going to enjoy it, and we’re going to have a good time, me and Cris.”

Just like Justino, the only loss of Lansberg’s MMA career came in her first pro fight, and she’s been perfect since. Her greatest moments are still on the horizon, she said, and if she beats “Cyborg,” she plans to join the elite of the UFC women’s bantamweight division. Lansberg said she’s knows doubters exist (and understandable so), but she’s not going to let the aura of Justino take away her confidence.

“This fight is absolutely a shortcut to the top, and it’s the best way possible,” Lansberg said. “She is beatable. She has beat many good names, but also a lot of names that weren’t that good, and she’s still human. A lot of people win all the time, but everybody is beatable.”
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#32 ·
Cyborg acknowledged Lansberg skills as a Muay Thay fighter, something she can do and MMAF posters who never heard of Lansberg before could never do, and decided to MMA her to a GNP finish. As she said, why going through the hard way and make it a Muay Thay fight against a Muay Thay champion? Cyborg is an MMA fighter, a well rounded one, and she feels she doesn't need to prove she is better standing anymore, she just wants the win.

That's the reason Lansberg looked like shit. Cyborg gave her no space and took her down. Cyborg is the way better MMA fighter, and people want to say she merely overpowered Lansberg?

And it is clear she is trying to make 135 (actually she gave up at this point). People still saying she just wants to keep her muscles to have the advantage when the division and money are in UFC BW? Really? If she can't, she can't. It is clear a lot of that muscle mass went away already. We have posted pictures from the past and conparing with pictures of today.

Ronda is 7-0 as FW. Period. Look how Miesha we thought to be a 125er suffered to make 135 last time. Holm is enormous. Where are those girls? It's up to the Smiths ans Lansbergs to step up and show guts.

I would say beating people that can be considered in a lower level than you grants more credit than running scared and not taking the fight.

And Lansberg may very well raise to the top of the BW women's division for what she is.
 
#33 ·
Do people not remember in Strikeforce when all the "top" girls were fighting at 145 no problem? The UFC only created the BW division to bridge the gap between FW's who could easily shed some pounds and Flyweights who could fight at their natural weight for a more populated division. I guess my point is...Most of the BW division are FW's they just, as some have said, don't want anything to do with a Cyborg fight. I'll never understand that because there's no shame in losing to Cyborg. Not anymore than having Ronda ragdoll you or KO you in the first round. Because there's no FW division they think there's no reward. I partially agree because we all know the first person to break Cris's streak will have to instantly rematch her instead of getting a shot at the BW title. The UFC is kinda wasting it's time having Cris fighting in it. Especially headlining the card.
 
#35 ·
There's literally no one at 145, it would be even worse than rouseys reign until the holm fight. Squash matches like that for a div is terrible, let her try 135 or give her catchweights until something notable in a talent crop rises.
 
#51 ·
Ronda is 7-0 as FW, one time fought at 150. She went down in weight running from Cyborg and now Cyborg is under UFC contract, allowed to do super fights at catchweight and calling her out and she still runs away like the bitch she is.
Cyborg has done everything she could to make this fight happen. She is almost killing herself to make 140 and she is not demanding Ronda to go fight at 145 where she fights, but at 140 and Ronda wants nothing with her because she is a coward.
 
#60 ·
People make it sound like Cyborg is bullying a woman who never fought at 145. Ronda blasted 6 women at 145, one at 150. And she can't have an easier weight cut to 140 to fight Cyborg? Really, what other arguments people have aside she is shitting her pants? You get Smith and Lansberg who arguably stand miles behind Ronda skillwise stepping up for the challenge, but Ronda wouldn't. Well, she did not even show up for a rematch against Holm. Everything was fine while she was having things her way an bullying ring girls.
 
#77 ·
I thought Cyroid looked horrible considering her competition. She let this girl hang in there and cling to her like a blanket for two rounds and you people think Ronda wouldn't be able to toss and destroy her? Sadly I dont know that Ronda is coming back but I still think her style is like Cyroid Kryptonite.
 
#78 ·
Uh? She did that because she is a better MMA fighter than that kickboxer champion. Against zero striking Ronda, Cyborg would blast her face to oblivion quicker than she did Leslie Smith, who also would defeat Ronda in a stand up fight only, like many other women in UFC not named Bethe Correia.
 
#85 · (Edited)
"He's a very big guy," Sonnen said. "I was impressed with how big he is. I was like 'Conor, what do you weigh?' He said 'I'm around 172 pounds.' He's got to be 145 pounds in eight days. I don't know how he's going to do it. He's very lean. He has a very busy schedule. He's training at Las Vegas. He was just in L.A. with Conan O'Brien last night. He's in New York for Reebok a day before that. He was in Connecticut the day before that. One, how does he do the weight? And two, how does he find the time? I don't know."
Conor most likely did cut a little weight to make sure he didn't weigh in over. He could cut 2-3 pounds just by not eating or drinking 12 hours before the weigh in.

Aldo, weighs about the same, about 170. Heres Poirier explaining why he was thinking of moving up to lightweight -



So you think the biggest FW in the division does't walk around at about 170, the guy who looks minutes away from death at weigh-ins? He absolutely weighs about 170.
 
#91 ·
Conor cut a little for the Diaz rematch I'd say, because there was a lot of suspicion that the lack of a cut could have cost him in the first fight (proven irrelevant in the second fight).

But if you look at Conor's body at 170, you know he doesn't walk around at that. He was saying himself, he was surprised to not even have a six pack. He's very filled out at 170 and he usually looks pretty skinny all the time. I'd say Conor probably walks about somewhere in the 160s. Conor I feel isn't the biggest weight cutter ever, but he is very visually affected by it. Fighters who cut huge amounts don't look as drawn out as Conor does. Even DC's looking healthier. Cyborg looks 50 times healthier. I think Conor's a guy who really visually shows the effects of a weight cut with his eyes and cheeks sinking in so much, making him look like a different person. I dunno if his cut is "incredible" considering he could still do it without IV.

Conor obviously couldn't make 135 none the less.
 
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