‘Poor Girl, Still Suffering From CTE’

Without end linked with a heated grudge combat with former bantamweight champion, Ronda Rousey – fellow UFC alum, Cris Cyborg has hit out on the Riverside native for shedding mild on her historical past of concussion accidents throughout her Octagon tenure, in addition to making a number of excuses for her 2015 loss to Holly Holm.

Cyborg, a former Strikeforce, Invicta FC, and UFC featherweight champion, presently holds the undisputed featherweight crown below the Bellator MMA banner, recent from an October knockout win over common-foe, Cat Zingano.

As for Rousey, the inaugural UFC bantamweight champion has been perpetually linked with a return to the Octagon since her pair of consecutive knockout losses to the above-mentioned, Holm, and former two-weight champion, Amanda Nunes.

Nonetheless, ruling out a return to the game, Rousey, who additionally featured below the skilled wrestling banner, WWE (World Wrestling Leisure), revealed earlier this week that she has been coping with a collection of concussions throughout her fight sports activities profession – in addition to claiming she was concussed earlier than coming into her combat with Holm in Australia. 

Cris Cyborg hits out at Ronda Rousey

Reacting to forever-nemesis, Rousey’s feedback, Cris Cyborg mocked the previous’s excuses for her losses, earlier than claiming she was affected by the neurodegenerative illness, CTE (persistent traumatic encephalopathy). 

“Poor woman, nonetheless affected by CTE,” Cris Cyborg posted on her official X account in response to Ronda Rousey’s claims. “I hope she lastly received an excellent mouth guard.” 

Revealing she fell down stairs forward of her combat with Holm, which resulted in a concussion, Rousey additionally claimed her mouth guard for the 2015 title combat was ill-fitting, earlier than shedding mild on a brutal weight reduce for the bout.

“My first loss – like, my mouthguard was dangerous,” Ronda Rousey defined throughout an interview with Valeria Livopetsky. “I actually got here into that combat [with Holly Holm] concussed from slipping down some stairs already, you recognize, in spite of everything of those years of concussions. After which I had a completely horrible weight reduce. Which, you recognize, meaning you could have much less fluid in your mind to chop to guard it.”

“And I used to be out on my toes for all the combat,” Ronda Rousey stated. “I used to be making an attempt to make it seem like I wasn’t damage, however I wasn’t there, cognitively. I couldn’t suppose as quick, I couldn’t choose distance, and simply from that one combat, everyone thought, ‘Oh, she’s only a fraud’. And I do know like, I’m the best fighter that has ever lived.”

Who would’ve received in a hypothetical combat: Cris Cyborg or Ronda Rousey?