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Message: [QUOTE="OzExorcist, post: 3367763, member: 23910"] FWIW I still think the chances that we see a Rousey-Cyborg fight are small: Rousey has made it clear she doesn't plan on fighting for very much longer, and frankly there's absolutely no reason for her to fight Cyborg at this stage of her career. She'll make about the same amount of money regardless of who she fights. If she were to somehow win two belts and avenge the loss to Holm in the process that would be at least as big for her legacy as fighting Cyborg... especially since she'd be very likely to lose the Cyborg fight. There's just no upside to it for her. As for it being nice that there's another women's division I agree to a point - but let's see if they can actually [i]make[/i] a division out of it first. I mean they've got two current 135ers fighting for the inaugural title. And I know I've made this point before (which I in turn borrowed from smarter people than me, like Jack Slack) but there simply isn't that much talent at 145 to build a division around. Here's [b]two[/b] independent rankings of the best 145 pound female fighters in MMA: [url]http://www.tapology.com/rankings/1265-top-women-featherweight-fighters[/url] [url]http://www.fightmatrix.com/mma-ranks/womens-featheweight/[/url] You'll notice a few things. First off both lists feature a LOT of fighters with less than 10 pro fights. Several of them only have two or three. Fightmatrix has to include "all fighters over 140 pounds" just to get 15 names, which means their list includes people like Gabi Garcia (who'd have to chop off a leg to make 145). Tapology's top 15 includes a couple of fighters on two-fight losing streaks, some who haven't fought in 3+ years... and several that already have brutal losses to Cyborg. Plus they still list Gina Carano as the #29 fighter in the world LOL. And that's before you consider how fast the UFC would be able to sign any of these names. Invicta will probably roll over like they always do and let them sign away the fighters on their roster. But some of the other names that feature high on both lists (inc Julia Budd, Marloes Coenen and Alexis Dufresne, assuming the UFC even wanted her back) are signed to Bellator. They're not likely to let them go without a fight... [/QUOTE]

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