Cris Cyborg is about for her subsequent fight sports activities look, and it gained’t be in an MMA cage as she hoped.
On April 27, Cyborg (3-0) will return to the boxing ring to face Widnelly Figueroa in the primary occasion of Inexperienced Bay Struggle Night time at The Watering Gap in Inexperienced Bay, Wis., in response to a press launch. The struggle will likely be two four-minute rounds in 10-ounce gloves, contested at 154 kilos.
The bout promoted by Roughhouse Promotions and Salomon Becerra will likely be Cyborg’s second boxing struggle of the 12 months, following an 81-second finish of Kelsey Wickstrum in January. Figueroa (0-2) will return to boxing for her first struggle since 2017.
“I used to be hopeful to be preventing (Larissa) Pachecho in June, which gave me restricted dates to pursue a Boxing struggle,” Cyborg mentioned within the launch. “Figueroa is a troublesome opponent who has been within the ring with Boxing Olympians with much more expertise than me. I’ve been coaching onerous and am hoping to proceed exhibiting the enhancements I’m making in my Boxing expertise.
“I wish to show to the individuals in Boxing that my KO energy in MMA can translate into KO energy with the larger gloves. I’m engaged on my boxing methods in order that I’m going to have the ability to ship the kind of fight-ending finishes followers wish to see. I’m trying to convey pleasure to Ladies’s Boxing like I’ve accomplished in WMMA.”
Cyborg, 38, is undefeated in professional boxing via three fights. She holds wins over Simone da Silva, Gabrielle Holloway, and Wickstrum. With a win over Figueroa, Cyborg will proceed to hunt a bout towards Cecilia Braekhus, the No. 1-ranked tremendous welterweight in response to BoxRec.
Cyborg’s final look in MMA was a first-round TKO stoppage of Cat Zingano at Bellator 300, which notched her fifth Bellator girls’s featherweight title protection. Since PFL’s acquisition of Bellator, Cyborg has been calling for a champion vs. champion bout towards Larissa Pacheco, however that struggle, or another MMA bout has but to come back collectively.
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