Ronda Rousey's next fight may still be months away, but "Rowdy" continues to trade barbs with one of her would-be opponents, Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino. The reigning UFC women's bantamweight champion claimed that her Brazilian rival ran away from their supposed match-up.
Ronda Rousey's next fight was announced right after UFC 178 in late September. "Rowdy" will be facing the returning "Alpha" Cat Zingano, who defeated Brazilian foe Amanda Nunes on the said fight card, via third round technical knock out.
But despite the finality of Ronda Rousey's next fight, another name has joined the list of challengers for the undefeated queen of the UFC's women's 135-pound division.
Former Strikeforce featherweight champion Cristianne "Cyborg" Justino has left herself within Rousey's radar, as she continues to engage in a war of words.
Justino spoke to Submission Radio, wherein she voiced out her opinions about Rousey.
"I think she keeps talking and keeps running and I think if I make 135 she cannot run anymore, because everybody, all the fans want to watch the fight and I think the only way for this fight to happen and to make her shut up is to make 135," Justino claimed.
The Invicta FC women's featherweight champion also answered "Rowdy's" allegations of trying to get out of a supposed UFC match-up by pulling out of a contract after a pre-fight drug test was announced.
"She's trying to use my mistake saying, 'Ah she don't want to be in the UFC because of heavy doping tests,' but she's lying because I don't go to the UFC because I have to cut for 135 and at the time when I talked to the UFC I wasn't not ready for this," Cyborg said," Cyborg added.
For her part, Rousey maintained the drug-test related allegations, adding that the fight should happen in the UFC only.
"She says she so 'desperately' wants [the fight]," Rousey said in an interview with Combate. "Then how come the day after they announced out-of-competition drug testing in the UFC she asked to be released? If you so desperately wanted a fight you would come fight me, not run away.
"I think she's saying one thing and doing another," she added. "I've always been [in the UFC]. I'm not going anywhere."
