Ladies’s MMA legend Cris Cyborg continued her dominance within the boxing ring earlier tonight (Sat., June 15, 2024) at Crypto Combat Evening from inside Indigo at The O2 in London, England, stopping Aria Wild with a devastating second-round knockout.
Cyborg, who scored a first-round knockout her final time boxing this previous January, got here into Saturday’s fundamental occasion a heavy betting favourite. The previous UFC, Bellator, Strikeforce, and Invicta FC girls’s featherweight champion had a big expertise benefit and has confirmed to be a grasp of knockout finishes. Wild didn’t stand a lot of an opportunity.
After Cyborg did work within the first spherical she pressured Wild alongside the ropes within the second. That’s when Cyborg delivered an enormous proper hand that caught Wild and dropped her to the canvas. Cyborg returned to her nook the place she calmly waited for the combat to formally be waved off.
Cyborg took to social media after her victory to share footage of the knockout punch and throw some shade at girls’s boxing nice Claressa Shields, who really simply returned to MMA this previous February with a split-decision win. Try Cyborg’s put up and video highlights beneath:
“4-0 and I’ve already bought extra KO’s than Claressa Shields who’s had about 100 boxing fights,” wrote Cyborg.
As Cyborg talked about, she is now 4-0 within the boxing ring since turning professional again in September 2022. The 38-year-old veteran nonetheless has some harmful fingers and will make an actual push in girls’s boxing if she retains this up. She’s additionally nonetheless competing in girls’s MMA, most lately stopping Cat Zingano by knockout again in October 2023 to defend the Bellator girls’s featherweight title.
