Rener Gracie: 'They're giving Cris Cyborg more credit than she deserves'

Rener (center) participates in Ronda's training, Cyborg's main rival. Photo: Reproduction

After almost two years of dominance of the UFC women's bantamweight category by Ronda Rousey, who in each fight has been beating her opponents more easily than the Brazilian Chris Cyborg She is considered by many to be the only fighter capable of putting an end to the American's reign. However, for Rener Gracie, son of Ultimate founder Rorion Gracie, Cyborg has been giving fans more hope that she is responsible for beating Ronda than she actually should.

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“I think people are giving more credit to Chris Cyborg than she deserves, in terms of beating Ronda”, said Gracie, in an interview with the North American website “MMA Fighting”. “No offense, she's obviously an incredible athlete and has done some impressive things in MMA, and from what I've heard she's a great person too. This is a personal thing, because I know what it's like to roll with a very athletic and strong person. People say rolling with Cyborg is like doing it with a man, you can't take it easy, you have to train hard. I've played with several martial arts, jiu-jitsu, MMA stars and I know what it's like. Ronda doesn’t look like anything or any of them,” she assured.

Rener continued his explanation and assured that his point of view is simply based on the qualities he can observe in Ronda Rousey. Furthermore, Hélio Gracie's grandson took the opportunity to leave his opinion on the recent controversy over the bantamweight champion's ability to beat a male athlete in a hypothetical fight. “That's my point. She (Ronda) is beyond. I'm not saying that rolling with Ronda is like rolling with a man. I never said those words and I never will. Rolling with Ronda is like rolling with an alien”, he joked.

At 28, Ronda Rousey He has a professional record of eleven victories in eleven fights, all of them by technical knockout or submission. Last Saturday (28), the blonde completed five successful belt defenses as bantamweight champion by beating Zingano cat in just 14 seconds, in the main fight of UFC 184, in Los Angeles (USA).

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