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'Cyborg's' manager on steroid allegations: 'Come on, it's old'

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Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino stands as the lone threat to Ronda Rousey's throne as "The Baddest Woman on the Planet."

A day before Rousey crushed Cat Zingano in 14 seconds, Cyborg was engineering some destruction of her own, viciously TKOing Charmaine Tweet in 46 seconds at Invicta FC 11.

With the MMA world clamoring for a matchup between the two world-destroyers, Cyborg - an impossibly massive featherweight - is hoping to face Rousey at a catchweight.

While Rousey is open to the challenge, she refuses to budge from 135 pounds.

Although Cyborg was popped for using PEDs four years ago, she tested clean in a pair of random drug screenings prior to her bout with Tweet. Unfortunately, the stigma of steroid use still follows the Invicta champion, with Rousey going so far as to call her a cheater who could make 135 pounds if she really wanted to.

Cyborg's manager, George Prajin, thinks the recent steroid allegations leveled at his client are completely unfair and without merit.

"The one thing I do want to say on record is that the accusations of her being on steroids - come on, it's old," Prajin told ESPN's Brett Okamoto. "In the last three years, she's probably had 10 tests. Random tests. So it's kind of reckless for somebody to say that somebody is on steroids when they just passed a test."

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