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For the second time in the past three months, Cris Cyborg has chosen the squared circle over a cage.
The reigning Bellator women's featherweight champion is one of the greatest mixed martial artists in the sport's history, but after a successful boxing debut in her native Brazil in September, the 37-year-old slugger is scheduled for a follow-up appearance at Saturday's Terence Crawford vs. David Avanesyan pay-per-view event in Omaha, Nebraska.
Cyborg said she wasn't actively seeking another boxing match, but when the opportunity was presented to her, she certainly didn't want to pass it up.
"I was thinking it was just one, too, but then they opened the door and invited me, and when they called my team, 'I would like to have Cyborg on the card,' it made me really happy," Cyborg told MMA Underground. "You know, it's an honor for me to be on the same card as Crawford, who is a big name of boxing, and it's nice to bring the MMA fans to come to watch him box, and his fans can know who is Cyborg, you know? It's going to be very cool."
