{"id":178929,"date":"2025-12-11T20:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178929\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:50:07","slug":"pfl-cris-cyborg-confirms-2026-retirement-plan-to-become-a-vet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/178929\/","title":{"rendered":"PFL: Cris Cyborg confirms 2026 retirement plan to become a vet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cyborg is widely-regarded as one of the greatest women’s mixed martial artists of all time.<\/p>\n

Since making her debut in 2005, she has won world titles in the UFC, Strikeforce, Invicta FC and Bellator.<\/p>\n

Alongside her multiple championships, Cyborg has recorded 21 of her 28 wins by knockout, illustrating the entertainment she brings to her fights. <\/p>\n

After beating Tonya Evinger to win the UFC featherweight title in 2017, Cyborg defended it twice before defeat by Nunes – arguably the biggest rival of her career.<\/p>\n

Cyborg later joined Bellator, where she again claimed featherweight gold before defending the belt five times in a dominant reign.<\/p>\n

A win over Collins will represent a world title in a fifth promotion, although the belt is a rebranding of her Bellator championship after the PFL acquired the promotion in 2023.<\/a><\/p>\n

Alongside her MMA career, Cyborg has also boxed professionally, and plans to add to her five wins in the sport before retiring next year.<\/p>\n

“I’ve already talked with PFL so we’ve planned for my last fight. We talked a little bit about maybe being in Brazil,” said Cyborg. <\/p>\n

“Then I want to use the opportunity next year to do some boxing fights, too. So my last year, I believe I’ve worked with my team, this will be the last year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cyborg is widely-regarded as one of the greatest women’s mixed martial artists of all time. Since making her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-178929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}