{"id":166349,"date":"2025-09-24T15:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166349\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T15:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:26:07","slug":"pfl-lyon-cris-cyborg-to-defend-featherweight-title-against-sara-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/166349\/","title":{"rendered":"PFL Lyon: Cris Cyborg to defend featherweight title against Sara Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cris Cyborg will defend her featherweight title for the first time in over two years when she faces Sara Collins at PFL Lyon on 13 December.<\/p>\n

Cyborg, 40, last defended her belt when she stopped Cat Zingano at Bellator 300 in October 2023, shortly before the promotion was acquired by the PFL.<\/p>\n

Since then the Bellator brand has been phased out, meaning the Brazilian’s belt will be re-branded as the PFL women’s featherweight championship for the bout with America’s Collins.<\/p>\n

Cyborg defeated fellow Brazilian Larissa Pacheco<\/a> just under a year ago, but the bout was not for an official title. <\/p>\n

Cyborg, who is widely regarded as one of the best women’s fighters in MMA history, heads into the fight with Collins having won 31 and lost only two fights.<\/p>\n

She has not suffered defeat since losing to Amanda Nunes in the UFC in 2018, and defended her Bellator title five times before it was re-branded.<\/p>\n

Collins, 35, enters the contest having won the first six fights of her career, with her last win coming against Leah McCourt in September.<\/a><\/p>\n

The bout takes place at the LDLC Arena in the city in eastern France on a card headlined by a heavyweight title fight between Russia’s Vadim Nemkov and Brazil’s Renan Ferreria. <\/p>\n

The bout is for the PFL heavyweight world title, which is also re-branded, with the organisation describing it as “the next chapter in heavyweight MMA”.<\/p>\n

American Ryan Bader was the last Bellator heavyweight champion before the brand was phased out, but he parted ways with the PFL earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cris Cyborg will defend her featherweight title for the first time in over two years when she faces…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,638,82],"class_list":["post-166349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}