If Cat Zingano takes out Pam Sorenson at Bellator 282, she’ll want a title shot. Before she’s willing to step into the shark tank opposite Cris Cyborg, however, Zingano wants her opponent to submit to independent drug testing. She has previously claimed that Cyborg has refused drug testing. Zingano elaborated on the story in an interview with MMAFighting.
“Independent testing for both of us — [an] independent resource, just making sure there are no biases, there’s no people that we know, and just making sure everything is fair.”
Cat Zingano Demands Cyborg Submit to Drug Test Before Fight
Currently, Bellator relies on state athletic commissions rather than conducting independent drug testing for its athletes. Zingano went on to explain why she is fighting Sorenson instead of Cyborg. “I wasn’t offered that fight, for one.
I know coming into Bellator, we talked about how that was going to be a fight that we had for sure. I know also coming into Bellator, all of my footage of fighting was in the UFC — there was licensing stuff there, so they can’t promote me and they can’t use any of my fight videos or highlights, can’t even really talk about me without it being a licensing thing with the UFC.
So they really wanted me to fight fights here and get tape, get reel, give me good matches against good 145-pound girls, and I’m relatively new to this weight class. So putting me in there and figuring it out, I wasn’t offered Cyborg.
I did tell them in the beginning there were things that I want to do, where both of us would do [it], to make sure it’s a fair fight, and to make sure it’s a safe fight. And with those guidelines, it just never came out. Every time we talked about the fight being between us, or she was calling me out online or I was saying something about her out online, I was kind of waiting for the phone calls, and the phone calls would come, but it was never her name.”
For the moment, there’s a more pressing job at hand. “Fights are momentary.
Every punch, every kick, is moment by moment, every second, every breath … so I’m focusing on this fight. I know that fight doesn’t even matter right now. This is what I have to do. My eyes are set on Pam Sorenson and coming in here and doing what I’m trained to do.” What do you think of Bellator’s drug testing? Let us know in the comments.
