With the women’s featherweight division newly running, a fight between current champion Germaine de Randamie and Cristiane Justino — the ruler of 145 pounds for the last decade — seems like a slam dunk. But hasn’t been that easy.
De Randamie has been conspicuously silent over the last few weeks, and questions remain as to where she stands with her health. The Dutch fighter said she suffered a hand injury stemming back to a fight with Larissa Pacheco in 2015, nearly two years before she took the inaugural belt against Holly Holm at UFC 208 in Brooklyn.