PFL featherweight champ Cris Cyborg just captured the WIBA women\u2019s super welterweight belt on Saturday night, making her the first woman to ever hold world titles in both boxing and MMA simultaneously. Now she wants to take a big step up and face one of the biggest names in women\u2019s boxing: Claressa Shields.<\/p>\n
Cyborg, who is now 8-0 in boxing,<\/a> absolutely destroyed Colombia\u2019s Paulina Cardona (27-35-7) at an event in Parana, Brazil organized by her own Na\u00e7\u00e3o Cyborg Fights promotion. Cardona\u2019s corner called off the fight after the first round, earning Cyborg the vacant WIBA 154 pound world championship belt.<\/p>\n The 40 year old Cyborg has said several times that she plans on retiring from combat sports<\/a> at the end of 2026, and is currently crossing some big goals off her list. Winning a boxing world title was one, and now she wants to face former friend<\/a> turned rival Clarissa Shields, \u201cThe GWOAT.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c8-0 in Boxing, WIBA 154lbs World Champion,\u201d Cyborg wrote on X (formerly Twitter). \u201cClaressa Shields, you challenged me to a fight at 154 (before I had ANY boxing experience). I\u2019m here. I am willing to move up to 160lbs TO FIGHT YOU.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am willing to offer you 2 million dollars for the fight, but the fight must happen before the end of the year. You talk about how you\u2019re the GWOAT. If you don\u2019t accept, that acronym stands for GOOFIEST WOMAN OF ALL TIME.\u201d<\/p>\n Cyborg made it clear that she\u2019d pay the $2 million out of her own pocket to make the fight happen.<\/p>\n \u201cI got 2 million dollars to offer her for a fight, double her highest career fight purse,\u201d Cyborg tweeted. \u201cIt\u2019s me who will pay her. I don\u2019t have any problem moving it to escrow after a contract is signed. Why wouldn\u2019t I put it up? I\u2019m one of the highest paid female fighters of all time. Fighters own their own promotion companies in boxing.\u201d<\/p>\n Cyborg is one of the most dominant fighters in WMMA history, but that history is full of missed opportunities and superfights that never came together. Ronda Rousey<\/a> was the biggest fight that failed to materialize, but she also never got a chance to try and avenge her 2018 loss to Amanda Nunes.<\/a> Now it seems like Shields may get added to the miss list, because \u201cThe GWOAT\u201d no longer has any interest in fighting the Brazilian powerhouse.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s 60 other girls who I know personally who will beat ts outta her,\u201d Shields wrote in reply to Cyborg\u2019s social media posts. \u201cShe can go fight them. And now she want to come to 160 but been [bitching] about it for 2 years plus.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cClaressa was wanting to fight me when I had zero boxing fights,\u201d Cyborg responded. \u201cNow that I\u2019m 8-0 she scared.\u201d<\/p>\n As for her newly won WIBA belt being a sham?<\/p>\n \u201cSame belt owned by Laila Ali, Holly Holm, Amanda Serrano,\u201d Cyborg wrote.<\/p>\n The upper weightclasses of women\u2019s boxing are not stacked with marketable opponents, so it\u2019s pretty strange that Shields would shut down a Cyborg fight, especially with a $2 million dollar purse attached. If half the boxers Shields knows could swat Cris down easily, why not do it herself and collect the easy paycheck?<\/p>\n The clock is ticking on this potential fight as Cyborg prepares to retire. Here\u2019s hoping it gets made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PFL featherweight champ Cris Cyborg just captured the WIBA women\u2019s super welterweight belt on Saturday night, making her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,43957,786,40762,785,8081,85],"class_list":["post-574246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-professional-fighters-league-pfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}