White reacts to Cyborg test flagging

UFC president Dana White spoke with a TMZ stringer about Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino’s anti-doping test failure just 30 minutes after it was announced.

I’d offered three fights to Cyborg,” said White. “She turned them all down. And then we just found out Cyborg had tested positive for a banned substance, from USADA.

“The United States Anti-Doping Association (sic) will handle it. There will be some back and forth; we will see how this thing plays out. So it’s kind of weird.

“First of all, I was offering these fights at 145 pounds. First fight she had eight weeks to get ready. Second fight she had eleven weeks to get ready. And the third fight she just turned down. And I thought it was strange, that she was turning down all of these fights. Not so strange now.

“It’s weird/funny how things work – I ended up making this Holly – Germaine fight at 45 which … which is perfect now.”

White was referring to the fact that if Cyborg had been contracted to fight for the title, she would now be out of it. White was later asked if Cyborg can come back from the test failure.

“This will be the second time,” said White. “I don’t know. I can’t answer that. We’ll see how this thing plays out. We gotta see how it plays out.”