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Cyborg awaits De Randamie's response, still wants to fight at UFC 214

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Cris Cyborg's callout of Germaine de Randamie appears to have gone unanswered.

After vacating her Invicta FC title last month and challenging the reigning women's featherweight champ to a July date at UFC 214, Cyborg took to Twitter on Wednesday to reveal she had yet to hear back from De Randamie, who revealed she may undergo surgery to repair her long-injured hand shortly after winning the strap at UFC 208 in February.

Should "The Iron Lady" fail to make the date, the 31-year-old Cyborg still intends to fight on the card - scheduled for July 29 in Anaheim, Calif. - and is rumored to have set her sights on Megan Anderson, who was promoted from interim to undisputed Invicta featherweight champ in wake of her vacating the promotional title.

Cyborg was widely expected to fight in the UFC's inaugural women's 145-pound title bout earlier this year, but her decision to take time off to recover from a September cut to 140 pounds and subsequent flagging by USADA put a wrench in the promotion's designs. She was later granted a retroactive therapeutic use exemption for a banned diuretic, but with the uncertainty surrounding De Randamie's next move, and the newly launched division still barren, Cyborg's own future remains murky.

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