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Joe Rogan asks UFC to open up WFW division for "Incredibly entertaining" Cyborg

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Joe Rogan asks UFC to open up WFW division for "Incredibly entertaining" Cyborg

Joe Rogan speaks out, asks UFC to open up women’s featherweight division for 'Cyborg'

Longtime UFC commentator Joe Rogan hates hard weight cuts, so watching Cristiane Justino get to 140 pounds – officially 141 – had to be hard for him.

After Justino (17-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) ruthlessly dispatched Lina Lansberg (6-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC) in her second catchweight appearance in the octagon, Rogan took to Twitter to ask the UFC to let her fight in her usual featherweight division.

Rogan no doubt watched Justino’s behind-the-scenes videos detailing her UFC debut opposite Leslie Smith and Saturday’s fight against Lansberg. In both, a miserable “Cyborg” is seen weeping as she sheds the final pounds before making the mark.

Justino on Twitter said she would never fight at 140 pounds again, but quickly backpedaled in subsequent interviews. After her second-round battery of Lansberg, she welcomed “superfights” for her fans. On FS1, she asked for ranked opposition, though it’s unclear which division she was referring to.

The way Rogan sees it, however, the UFC can build around her. Not only that, but he opined that fighter would eventually catch up to her.





Justino currently holds the Invicta FC featherweight belt, where she’s railroaded all of her opposition. It was her dominance that led the UFC to sign her to a deal that allowed her to fight in the octagon (and draw from the industry-leader’s financial resources). The deal also came with a very large carrot: a possible future fight with now ex-champ Ronda Rousey.

But with a fight against the once-dominant women’s bantamweight champ looking less and less likely, Justino’s residence at 140 pounds appears unnecessary, particularly in light of the health risks she faces by cutting so much weight.

Justino sidestepped the question of what would come next for her at the UFC Fight Night 95 press conference, shifting her attention to an imminent vacation.

But she holds out hope that her next fight is a lot easier for her on the scales.

“Let me defend my world title @ufc,” she wrote on Twitter.



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Basically what we've been calling for, but coming from a guy deep inside the business and definitely a fight fan.
 
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With the introduction of the strawweight, W-Bantamweight and the WEC weights... you had all that talent ready to go, enough to fill those divisions. Even with flyweight you had plenty of BW's looking to move down, and even then the division has always looked weak.

Featherweight does not have that, it has no depth... "The level of talent in each division seems to rise to the standard of the champion" is this correct? Look at MW, WW, WBW, BW... did those division's rise to the champs level? Seemed liked they sucked until the champ was gone, then they started to get good, after the champ was beaten by contender rushed into the shot. Competitiveness rises the talent level, when everyone in the division thinks they can beat the champion... and all have to fight to a champion level standard just to beat a fringe contender, shark tank rises the level... not empty divisions with a dominant champion sitting on the top.

So Womens FW in the UFC? No thanks...
 
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Have to laugh. Few years ago we had absolutely no women's division in UFC and Dana said we would never see one. Now people want to say it is OK to have the divisions that have been introduced, but not a new division where there's a champ that is a killer.

Really, why bother stating so vehemently a WFW division shouldn't be created. You don't need to watch it, you know?

How to expect development if we don't have a division at all?
How better was Ronda compared to her competition?
How better is Joanna?
But Cyborg can't have her own division because she is much better herself?

Create the division and people will pay to see Cyborg destroy her "cans" same way people paid to see Ronda destroy hers.

Joe Rogan is the man. He is a fight fan and he knows what he is talking about.



No, they did not. I love some one sided beatdown as much as I love a well disputed fight. What I don't like is not being able to see a fight.
 
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I believe the UFC, with effort and creativity, can develop and build a 145 division. Anyone who has watched the UFC over the years has seen periods where one division or another (most predominantly the HW division) has been weak or thin.

Early on, many felt there was little quality/depth in women's bantamweight, except the untouchable Ronda Rousey. We've seen the division grow leaps and bounds. Same would happen with a featherweight division.
 
#12 ·
My memories of the strikeforce womens BW division is flaky. How many of the current UFC top 10 came over from strikeforce and how many were introduced after the UFC consumed the division? Im trying to get a feel for how much the division has grown since, or whether they are still depending on the names that came over from strikeforce.
 
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Ronda, Tate, Kaufman,Davis, Carmouche, Nunes

Zingano was at invicta, Nunes was also at invicta... maybe she got cut? Pennington also at invicta

Holly Holm built herself

There was talent out there to poach, not many UFC made talents in the division. But like i said, a competitive division builds fighters, not a dominant champion on top of it.
 
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Ronda has literally the Victoria's Secrets model physique at weigh ins and fight night she is already a monster. Imagine now with 30 hours to recover.
We just had a diehard Ronda fan in Slapshot pointing Cyborg "struggled" against Lansberg, the first to past the first round after Marloes Coenen.

Dehydrated Cyborg can still overpower her opponents, but so did Ronda. Ronda is a bull.

And how a FW division would rely on Cyborg only? Both Ronda and Holm could be very well contenders in both divisions, perhaps even becoming champions in both divisions simultaneously.

Wasn't McGregor supposed to run across Denis Siver? And didn't people enjoy he doing it anyway? It's the challenger's problem how he will deal with the name across the cage. I want to see the elite perform, to crush the unprepared and to outclass the prepared. That's MMA. Preventing fights from happening isn't the way.
 
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And how a FW division would rely on Cyborg only? Both Ronda and Holm could be very well contenders in both divisions, perhaps even becoming champions in both divisions simultaneously.
Both, Rousey and Holm apparently want nothing from Cyborg. With Rousey, it's not even clear whether she will fight again a all and Holm probably has learned her lessen to just take upcoming fights without thinking beyond.
 
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