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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
"I have a professional nutritional guy and he helped me much easier to make 145. I can 100 percent make it... I'm ready for this fight. When she was in Strikeforce, I wanted to make the fight. I try 100 percent to make 135 lbs. It's annoying. I want to fight her... All fighters want to be a champ in the UFC. I think for now it'd be great to see me and Ronda fight. I don't want her belt. I just want to fight her. Let's go fight. Let's go meet at 140 lbs. Let's do it."
-Cris "Cyborg" Justino discusses the potential cut to 135 lbs., and why she wants the Ronda Rousey fight no matter what, on Friday's episode of UFC Tonight on Fox Sports 1.
Penick's Analysis: At this point the UFC isn't going to make that fight at a catchweight. Justino needs to make weight, and the belt will be on the line. That's just what the UFC and Rousey are going to insist upon, and they'll continue to point to Justino's previously failed steroid test as to why. Fair or not, right or not, that's the reality of the situation, so if Rousey-Cyborg is going to happen, Justino has to hit 135 lbs. at least twice. If she can do it once, she'll get the booking, and if she makes weight when they're booked with one another, the fighft will happen.
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