Cris Cyborg says she didn’t call out Ronda Rousey because ‘tonight was my moment’

After finally making her UFC debut on Saturday night, Cristiane Justino made a lot of people wonder just how much destruction she could create in the women’s bantamweight division.

“Cyborg” scored an emphatic first-round TKO over Leslie Smith at a 140-pound catchweight at UFC 198 in her native Curitiba, Brazil. Though it was her first time in the Octagon, it was par for the course. Justino — Invicta FC’s featherweight champion — has won seven of her previous 10 fights via first-round KO or TKO.

With the partition down and the spotlight hot, many thought she might take the opportunity to call out Ronda Rousey after her win over Smith, given that the two have been on a collision course going back to their Strikeforce days.

Yet “Cyborg” opted not to. Why?

“I believe that it was …

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