LOS ANGELES -- The moment Holly Holm head kicked Ronda Rousey, Cris Cyborg’s future was forever altered.
A women’s superfight between Rousey and Cyborg was something that had been conjectured going all the way back to their respective days in Strikeforce, where Rousey was bantamweight champion and Cyborg the featherweight titleholder.
Then Rousey became a transcendent superstar as the UFC’s first women’s bantamweight champion, and Cyborg was always kept at arm’s length. Rousey always had a reason to cast Cyborg aside, from the lack of a featherweight division keeping her out of the UFC, to Cyborg’s steroid suspension that kept her out of action in 2012 and so on.