It’s been well-documented that Cris Cyborg turned down several offers from Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) to compete in the promotion’s first-ever women’s Featherweight title fight. It's an opportunity for which she lobbied several years and even destroyed her body in 2016 to try and make happen.
But, when the call finally came, company president Dana White revealed that the Brazilian wrecking machine had one excuse after another to not fight (see them here). To make matters worse, United States Anti Doping Agency (USADA) revealed shortly thereafter that she had been flagged for a potential doping violation.