Cris Cyborg
Champion in five promotions and still hunting finishes
- Born
- July 9, 1985, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
- Nationality
Brazil- Height
- 173 cm (5′8″)
- Reach
- 173 cm (5′8″)
- Stance
- Orthodox
- Style
- Muay Thai power striker
- Weight
- Featherweight, Bantamweight
- Active
- 2005–present
- Status
- Active · age 41
The record
Professional MMA. The no contest is a 2011 Strikeforce win over Hiroko Yamanaka, overturned after a failed drug test. She is also 7-0 in professional boxing. UFC.com's profile is frozen at 21-2 from her 2019 UFC exit. record
The story
ris Cyborg, born Cristiane Justino in Curitiba, Brazil, is the only fighter to win world titles in five major MMA promotions: Strikeforce, Invicta FC, the UFC, Bellator and the PFL. She came up at the Chute Boxe academy and holds black belts in Muay Thai and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, but finishing power is her calling card, with 21 of her 30 wins by knockout. Her only defeats came in 2005, early in her career, and in 2018, when Amanda Nunes knocked her out in 51 seconds to take her UFC title. In 2009 she beat Gina Carano in the first major women's main event. Still active in her forties, she won the inaugural PFL title in 2025 and beat Ketlen Vieira in 2026. She is also 7-0 as a professional boxer.
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- Strikeforce women's featherweight champion
- Invicta FC featherweight champion (inaugural)
- UFC women's featherweight champion
- Bellator women's featherweight champion (5 successful defenses)
- PFL women's featherweight champion (inaugural)
- World MMA Awards Female Fighter of the Year (2009, 2010)
Defining fights
- 2009WINvs Gina Carano (TKO R1, won Strikeforce title)
- 2017WINvs Tonya Evinger (TKO R3, won UFC featherweight title)
- 2018LOSSvs Amanda Nunes (KO R1 in 51 seconds, lost UFC title)
- 2020WINvs Julia Budd (TKO R4, won Bellator title)
- 2025WINvs Sara Collins (submission R3, won inaugural PFL title)
Keep walking forward behind straight punches, and when the opponent grabs to slow you down, take the Muay Thai clinch and drive knees. Muay Thai and MMA students can drill punch-to-plum entries that finish with knees to the body and head.
