Scott Coker: Cris Cyborg will get immediate featherweight title shot

Scott Coker: Cris Cyborg will get immediate featherweight title shot

“We’re going to keep her much more active, and two, they’re not in the 145-pound weight class business, and we are,” he said. “So to me, it’s something I think that we’ve been growing this weight class for the last two, three years, and Cyborg is a great addition to it.

“She will have girls in her weight class to fight, whereas in the UFC, I think it was like, let’s see who we can sign to fight her for a one-off, or make people move up to fight her from a different weight class. But the commitment was never to start a 145-pound weight class – it was always somebody just to fight her. I think that’s the difference. We’ll do this one right.”

Coker can count on Budd to step up to the plate. After stopping Olga Rubin for her third title defense this summer, she said a fight with Cyborg was her destiny.

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