Despite the best attempts by UFC President Dana White and other UFC officials, current UFC women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg doesn’t want to fight UFC women’s bantamweight champion Amanda Nunes.

Just a few hours after White went on record stating that he would make the fight happen, Cyborg shot down the idea of a fight with Nunes right away.

“Amanda Nunes wants to fight Cyborg,” White said. “That is the fight to make, and that is the fight I will make. Amanda Nunes is a big, strong, powerful puncher.

I think she matches up very well with Cyborg too, and I think that’s a fun fight, and that’s the fight to make.”

It should be noted that Cyborg believes that Nunes needs to prove herself at featherweight before earning a title shot.

Cyborg has stated in the public that she is willing to fight Invicta FC women’s featherweight champion Megan Anderson and even threw out a possible date for the fight, which would’ve been UFC 221.

“As a world champion it is important that you face the (No. 1) contender,” Cyborg wrote today on her official website (transcription by MMA Junkie). “That is what makes it sport and not entertainment, otherwise what are the girls fighting at (145 pounds) training to work towards if they know they will never be given a title shot even if they become the best in the world?

I have a responsibility to the sport to ensure that when I retire the division continues to exist, and it is because of that I want my next fight to be against a contender from the featherweight division that has fought at (145 pounds) within the last year.

“If Megan Anderson is not ready to fight, then the next available contender Pam Sorenson deserves the opportunity. I can continue giving fans superfights. However, in order for this division to grow, it is my responsibility to respect the work of all the women fighting at (145 pounds) and give the top girls a chance at the title once they have earned it.

“If Amanda Nunes truly wants an opportunity at the (145-pound) belt, a win against any ranked contender in that division would help establish her back in a weight class she left before fighting me.”

In the past, Cyborg has explained her position on the possible fight with Nunes. As for the main reason, it’s due to her not wanting to fight a fellow Brazilian.

“When you’re the world champion, it doesn’t matter if you’re fighting a Brazilian, a German, a Puerto Rican, a friggin’ Cuban, whoever,” White said. “You fight whoever comes and tries to take your belt from you.”