Cris Cyborg

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Cristiane Justino Venâncio (born July 9, 1985), known professionally as Cris Cyborg and formerly by her married name Cristiane Santos, is a Brazilian and American professional mixed martial artist and professional boxer who currently competes in the Women’s Featherweight division of the Professional Fighters League (PFL), where she is the current and inaugural PFL Women's Featherweight World Champion. As a boxer, she is the current WIBA Light Middleweight World Champion. She formerly competed in Bellator MMA where she was the longest reigning and last Women’s Featherweight World Champion. She is also a former UFC, Strikeforce and Invicta FC World Featherweight Champion. She is the only MMA fighter in history to become a Quintuple Champion, holding world championships across five major MMA promotions. Cyborg is widely regarded as one of the greatest female mixed martial artists of all time.
Cyborg first rose to prominence when she won the Strikeforce title on August 15, 2009, by defeating Gina Carano via first-round technical knock-out (TKO) in the first ever major main event to feature women. She holds the record for the most wins by a woman in MMA history and is the first and only female fighter to reach 30 career victories.