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Her coach used to tell her to take her mind somewhere, anywhere, when shes cutting weight Go to the beach, Cris. Feel the ocean crash over your head, Cris. But when she tries to mentally leave this hotel bathroom in Braslia, she sees only Yang Jian Bing. Yang was a mixed martial arts fighter too. He too pushed his body to the depths of severe dehydration and then, eventually, suffered suspected heatstroke and cardiopulmonary failure. Yang passed away in December 2. He died cutting weight, Justino thinks. People talked about him for one week. Now, nine months later, as Justino sinks farther into a tub, she knows people have already forgotten his name. So is it worth it This wringing her body of every last ounce of waterThis almost death Simply to make weight for a fight Justino is the most fearsome womens MMA fighter on the planet she chose the moniker Cyborg, a being whose abilities far exceed those of normal humans. But today, as she prepares to make the 1. Sept. 2. 4, 2. 01. Lina Lansberg, shes afraid that stepping into the Octagon is not worth this. That nothing is worth this. Barbara Davidson For ESPNJustino works with boxing coach Jason Parillo. Justinos body is a sculpted 5 foot 8, 1. It is her greatest asset. It is also her most formidable obstacle. Her strength borders on savagery in the cage, where she shells opponents with five minute flurries of strikes. Ask Tonya Evinger, Justinos most recent victim, who resisted admirably for more than two rounds but eventually fell to earth. Five of Justinos past eight fights have ended in the first round, three in under a minute and a half. Best File Conversion Site here. And with 1. 8 victories 1. KO or TKO and one no contest, she hasnt lost since her professional debut in 2. Not a lot of girls can KO fighters, she says with a shrug. I KO all the girls. But after struggling for years simply to line up willing opponents, the 1. In July, at UFC 2. Anaheim, California, Justino competed for and won her first Ultimate Fighting Championship belt. She is 3. 2 years old. Cris is the baddest girl on the planet, says her boxing coach, Jason Parillo. And no one knows who she is. From 2. Justino fought exclusively in the 1. Invicta FC rather than the splashier, higher profile UFC because she had no home elsewhere. Even after the UFC added women to its cards in 2. Strawweight, at 1. October, UFC president Dana White insisted there arent enough good women at 1. Justino has long viewed Whites unwillingness to develop her featherweight division as a personal affront. They never respected me, she says. Justino and those in her orbit Parillo and coach Tito Ortiz, a Hall of Fame fighter contend that Whites justification was a red herring to deflect from the real reason the UFC balked at adding 1. Ronda Rousey was the holdup, Parillo says. One hundred percent. Ronda Rousey. In their view, the UFC was simply more devoted to its biggest star than to investing in the sports best fighter it didnt need a featherweight division or Cyborg since it already had the sports megastar. Cris would have smoked Rousey, Ortiz says. It would have been done in one round. White, for his part, has continued to publicly own his role in Justinos contentious history with the UFC. I dont know how it happened, he says now. But it did. And I needed to fix it. While Justino says she forgives White, in many ways she still carries that old slight, her defiance seeking constant release. Her demeanor demands recognition. She sports a shock of Jessica Rabbit, electric red hair. When she peels off her sweatshirt to train with Parillo, a black tee reveals her likeness a chiseled, glowing goddess, right leg up, arms poised for combat. FIGHTER. FEARLESS. FEMALE, it declares. She is both combative and hypersensitive to criticism. Justino has routinely questioned the UFCs commitment to promoting her My team went back through the UFC twitter feed history. Any guesses how many tweets they tagged me in. June. But she has also given the organization reason to not want to raise her profile. She tested positive for steroids five and a half years ago, a black eye that has yet to entirely fade. She punched a fellow fighter, Angela Magana, at a UFC retreat in May, frustrated over Maganas repeated cyber insults. The incident earned Justino a citation for misdemeanor battery. She pleaded not guilty, and the Las Vegas City Attorneys Office will decide in August whether it will file a complaint. Ultimately, her humanity lies in her hubris. The outsized sense of pride that has undeniably led to trouble also led to her greatest triumph, a dozen years into her career a UFC title. Barbara Davidson for ESPNJustino preps for her daily training run. From 2. 01. 3 until early last year, Justino fought exclusively in the 1. Invicta FC. Tito Ortiz first met Justino nine years ago in his wooded compound in Big Bear, California. Hed converted a log cabin, Oscar De La Hoyas old home, into a training lair, bringing in sparring partners to help him prepare for bouts. In 2. 00. 8, Evangelista Cyborg Santos arrived with his then wife, Cris she later adopted her ex husbands fighting nickname to help Ortiz prep for his UFC match against Lyoto Machida. Ortizs four car garage housed a cage, and husband and wife stepped in and began to spar. Theyre punching, kicking, Ortiz says. He head kicked her and kind of dazed her a bit. She took a second, then went at it again. I was. he pauses, dumbfounded. Justinos quest to prove her mettle was all consuming. In 2. 01. 4, she vowed that she would make 1. UFC she would meet Ronda Rousey at bantamweight. Justino set out on a yearslong pursuit to remake herself. She ran 1. 2 miles a day, doubling down on cardio to lose muscle mass. She became anemic, she says, because of what amounted to a three year diet designed to hit her mark. She fell short, a failure that dismayed MMA enthusiasts pining for a Rousey Cyborg megafight. It ate at her too. She could not reconcile why she was the best fighter in the world without the right platform. Ultimately, she chose not to resist the UFCs siren song, signing on to two fights in 2. UFC cards. Shed fight not for a belt but at 1. Leslie Smith and later against Swedish fighter Lina Lansberg. Which is how Justino found herself contemplating her mortality in a bathtub in Brazil. She made her weight last September for the right to face off against, and eventually beat, Lansberg, then vowed never to put her body through that kind of weight cut again. On every final day before weigh in, theres the Sweet Sweat she rubs onto her skin, a layer of grease to ratchet up circulation and perspiration. Over that, she wears a sauna suit plastic to trap heat. Over that, sweats and a hoodie. Then socks, gloves, a winter beanie. Keygen Surfer 12 Keygen. Then the treadmill or soccer or light work with hand pads anything to send those sweat glands into overdrive.