She’s not called a Cyborg for nothing

Is there anyone who can beat Strikeforce women’s 145-pound champ Cristiane “Cyborg” Santos? Short of the Toronto riot squad, I mean. Give Cyborg’s target for the night, Jan “Snuggles” Finney, credit, though, she took a licking and kept on ticking. Some wonder why the fight wasn’t called sooner than the second round, like in the first round when Finney was getting knocked down four times and beaten upon. Or when she took that huge knee to the face that dropped her again. And the reason is because Finney was still intelligently – if feebly – defending herself; she even landed her strongest shots in the opening seconds of the second round. The referee stepped in when she needed to. Any sooner would have done Finney a disservice.

And since the Cyborg-Finney fight isn’t available online, here’s last week’s Bellator bout between Zoila Frausto and Rosi Sexton, which also contained a devastating – and fight-ending – knee.