It’s rare that a champion makes a callout following a successful title defense but that’s exactly what Cris Cyborg did on Friday night.
Following her fifth-round TKO win over Leslie Smith in the main event of Bellator 259, Cyborg called out fellow former UFC competitor Cat Zingano for her third defense of her featherweight championship.
Zingano has won three of her last four, and both of her Bellator appearances. “Alpha” earned a unanimous decision in her promotional debut at September’s Bellator 245 event and followed that up with her first finish in nearly seven years at Bellator 261 in April.