Can Felicia Spencer rebound from her loss to Cris Cyborg?
The last we saw of [autotag]Felicia Spencer[/autotag], the former Invicta FC featherweight champion put in a game performance against Cris Cyborg, but was also on the wrong end of a convincing, one sided-loss.
Who would have known at the time of their UFC 240 fight that Cyborg would be Bellator champion before Spencer (7-1 MMA, 1-1 UFC) returned to the octagon?
But the eventful seven months in the world of women’s featherweight MMA since Cyborg vs. Spencer has given the latter a clean slate as she gets set for her octagon return, where she’ll meet Zarah Fairn (6-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC).
Spencer was undefeated for a reason heading into the Cyborg fight, displaying a finisher’s killer instinct that belied her relative lack of cage time. If she takes the right lessons from her first career loss – one in which she showed plenty of resilience against one of the sport’s toughest competitors – then she should be well on pace to assert herself for a shot at Nunes’ 145-pound belt.
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