Filed under: Featured , Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos SACRAMENTO – Paige VanZant is with “Cyborg.” And she’s with “Rowdy,” too. At open workouts for Saturday’s UFC on FOX 22, the women’s strawweight headliner said fans weren’t the only ones who questioned the promotion’s decision to open a 145-pound division without putting Invicta champ and UFC contractee Cristiane Santos ((17-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC)) in a title fight . “I feel like if they were making a (145-pound women’s division), they should build it around Cris ‘Cyborg’ – she really deserves it,” VanZant (7-1 MMA, 4-1 UFC) told MMAjunkie in a rare note of discordance with the promotion two days before her FOX-televised fight against Michelle Waterson (13-4 MMA, 1-0 UFC) at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, Calif. “If they’re not going to build it around Cris, then I think they should open up the 125 division, because there’s a lot of us that really should go up.” VanZant has found success in the UFC at 115 pounds, but said she would gladly try her hand in a heavier class if she had the chance. “We see a lot of girls that are missing weight at 115 because they can’t make that cut; it’s a huge cut for a lot of us,” she said. “I feel like I would go up to 125 if the division opened up.
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