7. Cris Cyborg v Tonya Evinger
The second Cris Cyborg victim on this list, Tonya Evinger’s story is very different to Yana Kunitskaya. The bantamweight was perennially linked with the UFC, but it never came off. So she ended up at Invicta where she went on to dominate and batter everybody in her path with a gritty, hard-wrestling style.
Evinger’s Diazesque personality won her a lot of fans and finally, she got signed by the UFC. The promotion had been trying to get Germaine De Randamie to fight Cyborg, but she refused and got stripped of the bantamweight title. Then Cyborg v Megan Anderson fell through. So Evinger decided to step up a division to make her debut in a title fight against Cris Cyborg. She got stopped in the 3rd round, but still… respect.
