Report: Cyborg Still Has A TON Of Weight To Cut

Invicta FC featherweight champ Cristiane ‘Cyborg’ Justino is set to make her second UFC Octagon appearance this Saturday (September 24, 2016), when she takes on Lina ‘The Elbow Princess’ Lansburg.

Justino has publicly expressed in the past the difficulty it is for her to meet the highest weight division that the UFC provides for women (bantamweight 135-pounds), and has since been taking catchweight bouts under the UFC banner at 140-pounds.

While it is only 5 pounds shy of her championship weight in Invicta, it is still a strenuous weight cut for the Brazilian phenom who is campaigning hard for the UFC to implicate a 145-pound division for its female combatants.

”Cyborg’ recently joined Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour, courtesy of MMA Fighting, and revealed that she is currently sitting at 165-pounds just days out of her contest against Lansburg:

“I fly from America to Brazil [five days ago] 168 pounds,” Justino said. “Today, I wake up 165.”

“In this camp, my nutrition coach, he starts giving to me birth control, and I never take this in my life, and I take this three months, every day,” Justino said. “My coach says it will be good for me, I believe in him, and, man I fly from America to Brazil 168 pounds. My body will hold more water than normal, and I don’t think this will really help my body.”

Justino also expressed concern that she has not yet reached 150-pounds at this point in her camp, and says the only difference in her preparation for this contest and the last is that she is now taking birth control:

“This camp I don’t touch 150,” she said. “It’s really scary, I look in the mirror, I trained double and I don’t know why I don’t touch ’50. Just something different in this camp is I take birth control. Last fight, I make 140, it was successful.”

“I don’t want to say I’ll never fight 140 again, that’s probably not true,” Cyborg said. “But a lot of things have to change. If I make 140, I sacrifice a lot of things in my life, my diet, my training, my thyroid, its insane to make 140, I think a lot of things have to be put on the table before I make 140 again.”

‘Cyborg’ will meet Lansburg in the main event of UFC Brasilia live on FS1, from the Ginasio Nilson Nelson arena in Brasilia, Brazil on September 24, 2016.