Who won Cyborg vs Evinger?
Cris Cyborg beat Tonya Evinger by during the main card of UFC 214, on Saturday 29th July 2017 at Honda Center in Anaheim.
The scorecards were announced as in favor of winner Cris Cyborg.
The fight was scheduled to take place over 5 rounds in the Women’s Featherweight division, which meant the weight limit was 145 pounds (10.4 stone or 65.8 KG).
This contest was for the vacant UFC women’s featherweight championship.
Cyborg vs Evinger stats
Cris Cyborg stepped into the octagon with a record of 17 wins, 1 loss and 0 draws, 15 of those wins coming by the way of knock out.
Tonya Evinger made her way to the cage with a record of 19 wins, 5 loses and 0 draws, with 8 of those wins by knock out and 7 by submission.
The stats suggested Cyborg had a massive power advantage over Evinger, boasting at 88% knock out percentage over Evinger's 42%.
If the fight went to the ground, their records suggested Evinger had a massive advantage over Cyborg, boosting at 37% submission rate over Cyborg's 0%.
Cris Cyborg was the younger woman by 4 years, at 38 years old.
Cyborg had a height advantage of 1 inch over Evinger. Despite this, Evinger had 1-inch reach advantage.
Cyborg's experience as a professional fighter was relatively equal to Evinger's, having had 6 fewer fights, and made her debut in 2005, 11 months earlier than Evinger, whose first professional fight was in 2006. She had fought 8 more professional rounds, 64 to Evinger's 56.
Cyborg vs Evinger form
Cyborg had beaten 4 of her last 5 opponents, stopping 2 of them, going to the judges twice.
In her last fight leading up to this contest, she had won against Arlene Blencowe at Bellator 249 on 15th October 2020 by in the 2nd round in their Bellator Women’s Featherweight championship fight at Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, United States.
Previous to that, she had won against Julia Budd at Bellator 238 on 25th January 2020 by knockout in the 4th round in their Bellator Women’s Featherweight championship fight at The Forum, Inglewood.
Going into that contest, she had beat Felicia Spencer at UFC 240 on 27th July 2019 by unanimous decision in their 3 round contest at Rogers Place, Edmonton, Canada.
Before that, she had been beaten by Amanda Nunes at UFC 232 on 29th December 2018 by knockout in the 1st round in their UFC Women’s Featherweight championship fight at The Forum, Inglewood, United States.
She had defeated Yana Santos at UFC 222 on 3rd March 2018 by knockout in the 1st round in their UFC Women’s Featherweight championship fight at T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas.
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Cyborg's last 5 fights had come over a period of 6 years and 22 days, meaning she had been fighting on average every 1 year, 2 months and 18 days. In those fights, she fought a total of 11 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 2.2 rounds on average.
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