UFC Fight Night 95: What If Cris Cyborg Actually Lost?

No one is anticipating Cris Cyborg is about to suffer a major upset at the hands of Lina Lansberg this weekend at UFC Fight Night 95.

Actually, most people who’ve been watching the Brazilian throughout her career aren’t particularly prepared for the idea that she’ll ever lose, period. She’s among the most dominant mixed martial artists of her era, arguably the best woman to ever throw hands in any combat sport and finally getting the credit she deserves by headlining an event for the biggest fight promotion on Earth.

But there’s an ignorance in focusing on those things and only those things, a blind spot created by obsessing over the positives that doesn’t do justice to the stakes of Cyborg…