Dana White: 'We're going to create the women's featherweight division, with or without Cyborg'

D. White guaranteed that she will open the women's featherweight category in the UFC (Photo: Disclosure)

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The controversy involving Chris Cyborg and the UFC gained another chapter this Wednesday (07). After the fighter explain the reasons that made her refuse two fights for the organization, president Dana White guaranteed that Ultimate will open the women's featherweight category (up to 66kg), regardless of the Brazilian's participation.

“She received two fight offers at 65,7kg and turned them both down. The first fight, she said she only had eight weeks and it wasn't enough time to make 65,7kg, and she didn't give any reason for the second time. But the answer is yes, we will create a featherweight division, whether with or without the Chris Cyborg”, declared White to the Australian TV channel “Fox Sports”.

Currently, there are only two women's categories in the UFC: strawweight (up to 52,2kg), which has the Polish Joanna Jedrzejczyk as champion, and bantamweight (up to 61,2kg), with the Brazilian Amanda nunes at the top of the division.

Cyborg, 31 years old, had two fights in Ultimate, both at combined weight. His debut was in May this year, at UFC 198, in Curitiba, when he knocked out Leslie Smith. The second participation was against Lina Lansberg in the UFC Brasilia, last September. On that occasion, the Brazilian knocked out Lina Lansberg in the main fight of the event.

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