Cris Cyborg feels bad about anti Rousey backlash
“This is not nice. Losing a fight, winning — it happens. But these people make fun. … I know it’s not nice. I know she hurts now and I know depression.”
It was 2011. The best female fighter in the world, and the Strikeforce women’s featherweight champion was CrisCyborg. Then she failed a PED test and was suspended by the California State Athletic Commission.
Cyborg was widely reviled; she learned who her friends were. Now former UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey has lost a fight, and has suffered a widespread fan backlash.
Despite whatever trash talk has passed between the pair, Cris Cyborg feels for Ronda Rousey.
“It’s terrible,” said Cyborg to Marc Raimondi for MMAFighting.com. “When you’re there, every body is with you. I feel sorry about this. I know this, because before something happened in my career — the doping — and before everybody is with you [and then they’re not]. But I love my fans. Some fans kept with me and I’m sure she has that, too. It’s sad, but sometimes it’s good so you can see who’s with you. You can see who you really have to appreciate.”
“This is not nice. Losing a fight, winning — it happens. But these people make fun. … I know it’s not nice. I know she hurts now and I know depression.”
“Always you can lose. You can lose, you can win. It’s not embarrassing. It’s embarrassing when you speak before you fight. It’s embarrassing speaking bad. I think you have to work hard on what you say, because if you lose, when you come back from the airport you have to have a pillow on your face.”
“I think she’d like to use this to challenge herself and get better. To come in and change. Something bad in life has to happen before you change and grow. I can’t say anything bad about her. She’s been good for women’s MMA. She opened a lot of doors. I know I [fought] before her, but she had opportunities and she’s handled it and helped everybody.”
“I think she’s an athlete. I think maybe she won’t stop, she’ll keep going. You can’t care what people say. People can say what they say, but only you know. Only you and your family.”
Invicta FC featherweight champion Cris ‘Cybrog’ Justino fights DariaIbragimova on Saturday night in the main event of Invicta FC 15.
