Mike Dolce calls out Cris 'Cyborg': She's creating barrier so she can't fight Rousey

Cristiane Justino

Nutritional consultant Mike Dolce thinks Cristiane Justino isn’t really telling the truth when it comes to her desire to fight Ronda Rousey.

“I see what’s going on the media, and it’s all B.S.,” Dolce recently told MMAjunkie Radio.

Dolce cited a recent tweet from the Invicta FC featherweight champ, which featured a photo of her torso alongside the UFC women’s bantamweight champ. In the caption, Justino wrote, “4 percent bodyfat!”

In a later tweet, she again posted the picture of her torso with the caption, “175 with a six pack” and the hashtag, “thestruggleisreal.”

The posts made quite an impression on Dolce, and not one that was positive.

“That’s a boldface – well, I can’t say it’s a lie, but that’s false information, because if you look at the Mr. Olympia stage, those male bodybuilders are competing anywhere between four and six percent,” Dolce said. “So if Cris ‘Cyborg’ or anyone has four percent body fat, you will see every tendon in their body. You will see every vein in their body. Cris was not even close to 10 percent body fat, let alone four percent body fat.

“Look at the track and field athletes; they’re typically around 15 percent bodyfat. Cris ‘Cyborg’ is not as ripped as those athletes, therefore, she’s probably in the teens. Let’s say she’s in the mid-teens; let’s even say she’s in the low teens. She’s taking huge liberties in the media with these comments that she’s putting out there to attach her name to Ronda Rousey’s name in order to keep relevancy.”

Dolce lends his services to Rousey when she makes the drop to 135 pounds (the champ once fought at 145 pounds and then dropped to bantamweight). But two years ago, before Dolce was working with the UFC champ, he was approached to work with Justino, whose rivalry with Rousey is well established. The UFC was interested in putting the women’s fight together and said it would pay for him to consult with Justino so she could drop to the women’s bantamweight division.

“When I sat down with Cris, she was 165 pounds or so,” Dolce said. “She was in the mid-160s. She was in her off-season, which is usually the heaviest an athlete can be, and she said she wanted to fight with Ronda. We fast forward at two years, and Cris is walking around at 175 pounds, claiming she wants a fight with Ronda. So she gained 10 pounds of body weight while claiming she wants to fight Ronda at 135 pounds.

“Now, you do the math. Does Cris ‘Cyborg’ really want to fight Ronda Rousey at 135? Or is she just creating smoke and mirrors for the media for people to pay attention to? She put 10 pounds on her body since claiming it’s going to be hard for her to lose weight to fight Ronda Rousey.”

An email requesting a response to Dolce’s comments wasn’t immediately returned by Justino’s rep, George Prajin.

This past winter, Justino postponed plans to drop to the women’s bantamweight division after she and her team outlined a plan to taper down to 135 pounds over time, using fights in Invicta FC as a test run for her new division.

Following Justino’s dominant win over Charmaine Tweet and Rousey’s 14-second decimation of Cat Zingano at UFC 184, calls for Justino (13-1) to fight in the UFC against Rousey (11-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) intensified once again. UFC President Dana White said Justino needed to drop to Rousey’s class before the fight could be put together.

Several months ago, the UFC signed Justino to a deal in which it retains the rights to bring her to the UFC. But with the industry leader lacking a featherweight division, Justino’s path into the promotion’s octagon is, for now, dependent on her ability to lose weight.

“Cris can make 135 – absolutely, easily, any day of the week,” Dolce said. “She chooses not to. In fact, she’s chosen to gain 10 pounds to get that much further away from Ronda Rousey, the reigning 135-pound female champion. If you want to fight the champ, you’ve got to come down to the weight class and fight the champ. Cris ‘Cyborg’ has chosen to gain 10 additional pounds to create a further barrier that she will never fight Ronda Rousey.”

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