One of the biggest talked-about matchups in the early 2010s is the would-be super fight between then-UFC superstar Ronda Rousey and Cris Cyborg, who was the consensus women’s MMA GOAT at the time. In late 2015, Cyborg claimed to have been offered the Rousey fight, but that was as far as it went, as we’ve all come to see.
Both women have since gone on different paths. Cyborg left the UFC in 2020 and is now Bellator’s reigning featherweight champion. Rousey, meanwhile, turned her back on mixed martial arts after two brutal losses, transitioned to pro-wrestling in the WWE, and became a first-time mother last September.