Cris Cyborg Says UFC Did Not Fire Her

A messy situation between UFC and Cris Cyborg keeps having new wrinkles added.On Saturday, Cyborg [...]

By Ryan Droste

A messy situation between UFC and Cris Cyborg keeps having new wrinkles added.

On Saturday, Cyborg took to Twitter to push back on the narrative that UFC has "fired" her, noting that she had actually fulfilled her contract. UFC President Dana White had said she was being released from her contract, though the MMA star noted she can't be released if she's already fulfilled the deal.

Our original report on Friday did note, however, that Cyborg's contract had been fulfilled. It went on to note that she was technically under contract for three months yet following the final fight on her deal (last weekend's UFC 240 bout) for a "negotiating period."

Concerning the Cyborg situation, White told UFC's Laura Sanko, "All this other bulls—t she's putting out there, again, to avoid fighting Amanda Nunes. Message received, I get it. I'm going to release her from her contract. I will not match any offers. She is free and clear to go to Bellator or any of these other organizations and fight these easy fights that she wants. Done. Done deal," White said in the interview. "I will literally today have my lawyer draft a letter to her team that she is free and clear to go wherever she wants. We're out of the Cyborg business."

Cyborg has repeatedly pushed back on the idea that she's not interested in facing Nunes.

"You know I text you for the rematch. You know this. Stop lying about it," Cyborg said in a video posted by MMAFighting.com. "What you are saying that I don't want to fight. You know that I want to fight and I'm not scared."

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Hey guys, I know that many people saw the video of my confrontation with Dana White after UFC 240 that was posted on my official YouTube channel, Twitter account and Instagram account. I want to let everyone know that the video was edited by my Production Team to make it appear as though Dana told me “and listen whenever you hear me saying stuff, I’m not saying …the truth.” Dana did not say that to me, and the subtitles in the video were incorrect. As you can see from the unedited video, Dana actually said “and listen, whenever you hear me saying stuff, I’m not saying negative things about you.” Dana and I have had many disagreements during my career in the UFC, and I have been adamant about standing up for myself in situations where I feel my character and statements have been misrepresented and used against me. But I also take pride in being an honest person and a true professional. I take full responsibility for the actions that resulted in the edited video being posted on my social media accounts. We were wrong, and I have addressed this issue with my Production Team so that it doesn’t ever happen again in the future. ​Finally, I want to apologize to Dana White for posting the video. Even though we will continue to disagree about numerous issues, I will always stand up for doing what is right. •••••••••

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