Tito Ortiz: "We are waiting for the UFC to release Cyborg."
by Alfredo Reyes on February 08, 2013

UFC Hall-of-Famer Tito Ortiz revealed today on Inside MMA that he is waiting for the UFC to officially release former Strikeforce featherweight champion Cristiane Santos from her UFC contract.

Santos was brought to the UFC to compete in their newly inaugurated bantamweight division and to challenge champion Ronda Rousey in a much anticipate superfight, however, the former featherweight champion refused to drop down to 135 lbs citing an inability to make the cut.

UFC president Dana White went as far as hiring Mike Dolce to help Santos make the cut from 165 lbs to 135 lbs. Dolce stated that she could have easily made the weight.

However, Santos and her manage Ortiz refused to endanger Santos' life by cutting the extra weight. 

Due to Santos inability to make the bantamweight division, the UFC has elected to release her from her UFC contract.

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 |  (30) Comments Hizoka: its Tito trying to be political and try and use her not wanting to fight as leverage to get RR to move up... its not gonna happen and honestly Tito is gonna kill WMMA mike5k: So she'll get released then go fight at all of the other huge promotions where women's mma gets headlined on big ppv cards. What? There are no other organizations like that. Oh. flyangler: Tito is starting to get real annoying as of late. STFU bushead, please
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