Overview
- At a press event for her May 16 Netflix/Most Valuable Promotions bout with Gina Carano, Ronda Rousey called Cris Cyborg a “cheating, roided-up” fighter who cost Carano a title.
- Cyborg acknowledged a single failed drug test in 2011 for stanozolol, noting she served a one-year CSAC suspension, paid a fine, and had a win overturned.
- She emphasized ongoing Olympic-style testing since then and referenced a 2016 USADA-flagged diuretic that was cleared through a therapeutic-use exemption with no wrongdoing found.
- Cyborg pushed back on Rousey’s remarks with pointed criticism and said Rousey still would not agree to fight her, as their long-running rivalry continues largely online.
- Both are set for separate returns: Cyborg is slated to box Paulina Cardona for the WIBA super welterweight title on March 28 in Curitiba, while Rousey faces Carano in a 25-minute bout at the Intuit Dome on May 16.