There hasn’t necessarily been much love lost between the UFC’s top brass and Cristiane Justino, but there’s still time for things to change.

And the relationship between the famed Brazilian fighter and the promotion may be on the uptick now that she’s fighting for the newly vacant women’s featherweight title next month. To go along with that, UFC President Dana White is willing to admit the promotion needed to try to right some wrongs when it comes to “Cyborg.”

“She’s had a rough go here in the UFC,” White recently told MMAjunkie in an exclusive sit-down interview. “She hasn’t been thrilled with things that have been said, things that have been done. And to be honest with you, we’ve made some mistakes when it comes to ‘Cyborg.’ So the least we can do is get our (expletive) together and get this woman a fight for the title.”

Justino (17-1 MMA, 2-0 UFC) was set to fight Invicta FC featherweight champion Megan Anderson (9-2 MMA, 0-0 UFC) for the belt, which was stripped from inaugural UFC 145-pound champ Germaine de Randamie (7-3 MMA, 4-1 UFC) over a failure to defend. But when Anderson had to pull out of UFC 214, citing personal issues, Invicta FC bantamweight champ Tonya Evinger (19-5 MMA, 0-0 UFC) got the call to save the day.

UFC 214 takes place July 29 at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. The main card airs on pay-per-view following prelims on FS1 and UFC Fight Pass. Justino vs. Evinger for the vacant featherweight title will be the co-main event.

White said he likes what Evinger is going to bring to the table.

“(Anderson) had some personal problems and couldn’t do this fight,” he said. “And Tonya Evinger is a girl who has been around for a long time. She’s tough, she’s gritty, and what I’m really looking for is, I want a woman that’s going to go out and fight ‘Cyborg.’ I believe Tonya Evinger is that woman. We’ll see.”

As far as de Randamie goes, White said the notion she didn’t want to fight Justino clearly created a problem.

“We make it very clear: When you go into that division, you know who you’re going to be fighting,” White said. “Basically, ‘Cyborg’ owns that division. You go into the 145-pound division and you’re fighting for a belt, you’re going to fight ‘Cyborg.'”

So far, Justino has had two fights in the UFC – both at 140-pound catchweights. The issue for her for the longest time was that the UFC didn’t have a women’s featherweight division, and “Cyborg” long has claimed she can’t get down to bantamweight safely. The issues making 135 pounds kept her out of the promotion, and kept a megafight with someone like former champ Ronda Rousey from happening.

But in February, the UFC opened up a women’s 145-pound division, crowned an inaugural champ when de Randamie beat former bantamweight champ Holly Holm, and the door was open for “Cyborg.”

“We signed ‘Cyborg,’ we made a commitment to ‘Cyborg,’ and not everything is easy and not everything is as fun as other divisions or whatever, but we made a commitment to this woman,” White said.

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