UFC Women’s Featherweight Champion Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino has been pushing for a bout against former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion Holly Holm at UFC 219.
Cyborg has also been tested multiple times by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and she isn’t too pleased about that.
The women’s featherweight champion took to both Instagram and Twitter to complain about the assortment of tests, plus the apparent lack of testing for her potential future opponent in Holm.
3th visit from USADA in less than a month.
— #CyborgNation (@criscyborg) October 16, 2017
Let's go see if my next opponent is doing exams in the same proportion I'm doing! -- website guys pic.twitter.com/2K8epQj91R
I want a guarantee @hollyholm is tested same number of times as me during this camp @UFC @usantidoping her gym has a history 2! I'm clean
— #CyborgNation (@criscyborg) October 16, 2017
No gym in mma has more fighters doping violations than @JacksonWinkMMA. Mia fought Holly 12rd in boxing. @usantidoping is good 4 the sport https://t.co/GmtsfUGkKU
— #CyborgNation (@criscyborg) October 17, 2017
I am clean athlete agreeing to test the same # times from today until dec 30 fight gives @HollyHolm n myself chance 2 prove we fight clean
— #CyborgNation (@criscyborg) October 17, 2017
#ufc219 #competecleanorgohome no need to listen to the rumors
— #CyborgNation (@criscyborg) October 17, 2017
I want we are tested the same # of times from now until dec 30th. I've been tested 2 additional times not shown on report last 30 Dias
— #CyborgNation (@criscyborg) October 17, 2017
Holm, who has stated in the past that she is willing to fight Cyborg, issued responses of her own through Twitter and Instagram:
I've actually just wasted a minute of my life on this video. https://t.co/XInYsKnvVx
— Holly Holm (@HollyHolm) October 17, 2017
Here is a transcript of what Holm said in her Instagram video:
“She said she’s being tested by USADA and wants me to be tested just as much, and she probably should have looked at the public records on the USADA webpage and seen I’ve been tested nine times compared to her eight. I’m in no race, and I really don’t care. I just know I can complete clean, and they can test me all the time. So, I just never needed an applause for passing my tests. In the mean time, I’ll just spend my time training, and she can spend her time complaining and making false accusations and false memes.”
According to the USADA website, it has been Holm who has been tested more than Cyborg since the program began. In just 2017, the database shows that Holm had been tested 9 times, while Cyborg had been tested 8 times.
Overall, the USADA database shows that Holm has been tested 26 times since USADA joined the UFC, while Cyborg had been tested 22 times. The database gets updated on a weekly basis and the latest update took place on October 11.
USADA has yet to issue any statement of their own about Cyborg’s newest claims, but they have had run ins with the fighter before. The most notable of those run ins took place in December of 2016, when Cyborg was notified of a potential violation for an out of competition drug test, but she was cleared to compete again by February of 2017.