Invicta Featherweight Champion Megan Anderson doesn’t believe she will ever get an opportunity to fight in the UFC.
Anderson, along with Cristiane “Cyborg” Justino, has been campaigning for a title fight in the UFC. However, with the UFC women’s featherweight division being in limbo, a fight with “Cyborg” doesn’t’ seem likely.
“It has been very frustrating,” Anderson told FanSided MMA. “When they first said that they were going to introduce the featherweight division, I was really excited. I thought, ‘look, okay, there’s this opportunity to go up to the big stage’, and they haven’t done anything. It’s kind of disappointing. I feel like I’m so close, but I’m not there yet. I think, I honestly don’t think I’m ever going to get there with the way things are going at the moment. I’ve got to do what’s best for me.”
With a UFC fight being unlikely, Anderson is defending her Invicta title on July 15 against Helena Kolesnyk.
“The fact that they haven’t signed any actual featherweights, it just makes it look like they’re not interested in the division,” Anderson said. “Technically, now they only have one person in the featherweight division on their roster. They’re not signing anyone. It kind of makes me think that I’m not really looking forward to the UFC in my career right now because they’re not making the steps to introduce the division like they should.”
Anderson went on to share her thoughts about Justino. Even though she might not get a fight in the UFC, Anderson does believe she will someday fight “Cyborg”.
“I respect the hell out of Cris,” Anderson said. “I got to meet her a few weekends ago out in Vegas and she’s a great ambassador for the sport, a great ambassador for women’s MMA and she’s been such a dominant force for such a long time. I have a lot of respect for her and I think it’s a mutual respect. None of us have talked bad about each other. At the end of the day, we’re gonna fight. It might not be now because the UFC has other plans. But that’s fine, I know that I want that fight and she wants the fight. It will happen one day and it will be the best fight in the history of the featherweight division.”
