Cris Cyborg and Amanda Nunes are two of the three current UFC women’s champions, so a superfight of sorts between the two Brazilians would make for a lot of intrigue. But it’s a matchup Cyborg hopes to avoid at all costs.
Cyborg, who recently won the vacant UFC featherweight title with a TKO win over Tonya Evinger at UFC 214, said she doesn’t want fight Nunes, the UFC 135-pound titleholder, because they are both from Brazil — she wants to see her fellow Brazilians do as well as possible.
This, of course, does not contradict Nunes’ wishes — even before Cyborg was UFC champ, “The Lioness” said multiple times she wasn’t interested in a fight with Cyborg.