In a year marked by a movement toward health reform in mixed martial arts, questions are still prevalent about one of the most dominant fighters in the sport and her dangerous weight cut.
Cris Cyborg told Ariel Helwani on Monday's episode of The MMA Hour that she was 165 pounds as of Monday morning. On Friday morning in Brasilia, Brazil, she will have to weigh-in at 141 pounds or less for her main event fight with Lina Lansberg at UFC Fight Night 95.
That's a loss of 24 pounds in four days, which falls under the category of extreme weight-cutting and is exactly what regulators have been trying to taper in MMA.