Cristiane Justino

Cristiane Santos ( born July 9, 1985 in Curitiba as Cristiane Justino Venancio; nickname Cyborg ) is a Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter.

Santos was a handball player and started in 2004 with Muay Thai. Your first MMA competition was on show Fight 2 on 17 May 2005 in São Paulo, where she was defeated in the first round Erica Paes. Her next fight was on November 20 at the event Storm Samurai 9 in her hometown of Curitiba. There they defeated Vanessa Porto to points. On 28 January 2006, the next Storm Samurai took place, it was subject to the Chris Schroeder by technical knockout. At the taking place in the same year, following two Samurai Storm Events Santos went out of the struggles against Elaine Santiago and Marise Vitoria out also as the winner.

Santos fought one and a half years, not more, before she met on 26 July 2008 at Stockton, California, at an event of the organizer EliteXC on Shayna Baszler. She won by technical knockout in the second round. Your next fight, on October 4, 2008, during which she defeated Yoko Takahashi on points, was one of the last run of EliteXC events. Then Santos went to Strikeforce, where they at the event vs. Shamrock. Diaz in the main card against Hitomi Akano won by TKO on April 11, 2009. At the Strikeforce event on 15 August 2009 at the HP Pavilion was her encounter with Gina Carano main fight of the night. Santos defeated Carano in the first round by TKO and thus became the first Women's Featherweight Champion of the Strike Force. Marloes Coenen was your first Titelherausforderin against which Santos successfully defended on 30 January 2010. Her next fight in June against Jan Finney ended victorious. Thus their MMA balance amounted to ten wins and one loss.

Cristiane Santos is married to Evangelista Santos.