Strikeforce 145-pound women's champion Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos is set to make her second title defense against promotional newcomer Jan Finney at the Strikeforce event on June 26 at the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California.
News of the matchup was first reported by MMARising.com.
The Strikeforce and M-1 co-promoted event will be headlined by a heavyweight bout between number one ranked heavyweight Fedor Emelianenko and Fabricio Werdum.
Santos has now won nine straight fights, with seven of those victories coming by TKO. During the impressive streak, she has won her first three Strikeforce bouts. Her first was against Hitomi Akano in her promotional debut, then she defeated the popular Gina Carano to win the vacant Strikeforce 145-pound women's title, and most recently she made a successful title defense by scoring a third-round TKO win over Marloes Coenen at Strikeforce: "Miami" in January.
Prior to being acquired by Strikeforce, Santos went 2-0 in the now-defunct EliteXC organization. She has put together a near perfect MMA record of 9-1 over her five-year career.
Santos suffered her lone career loss in her MMA debut in May 2005, when she was defeated by Erica Paes at a Show Fight event in Brazil. The Chute Boxe product holds other notable career wins over the likes of Vanessa Porto, Shayna Baszler and Hitomi Akano.
Finney (8-7) is currently riding a four-fight winning streak, with her most recent win coming over Adrienna Jenkins at Freestyle Cage Fighting 40 in March. Prior to the wins, she went through a dismal 2-7stretch, which saw her suffer losses to notable females fighters such as Julie Kedzie (x3), Shayna Baszler, Miesha Tate and Erin Toughill.
Finney has been competing professionally for almost six-years, while fighting for other notable promotions such as King of the Cage, Palace Fighting Championship, Bodog Fight and HOOKnSHOOT. She has scored stoppage wins in five of her eight career victories including four by TKO or KO.







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