Megan Anderson feels like the state of the UFC women’s featherweight division may take her career in a different direction. Anderson is set to defend her Invicta FC featherweight title on July 15 and would still love to fight Cris Cyborg down the road.

It’s been a very interesting year for Megan Anderson.

Back in January, she defeated Charmaine Tweet to become the interim Invicta FC featherweight champion. After Cris Cyborg vacated the undisputed featherweight title, Anderson became the undisputed champ herself. With the introduction of the new UFC women’s featherweight division back in February at UFC 208, it seemed like it would only be a matter of time before Anderson made her way into the octagon.

With the UFC featherweight champion Germaine de Randamie saying she wants to head back to the bantamweight division, and the 145-pound division currently in a state of flux, Anderson’s next fight will be in Invicta FC, defending her title against the undefeated Helena Kolesnyk in the main event of Invicta FC 24 on July 15th in Kansas City.

While Anderson still has the goal of fighting for the UFC, with the recent developments in the new 145-pound women’s division, she believes that goal may not be a possibility at the moment.

“It has been very frustrating,” Anderson said while speaking to FanSided MMA. “When they first said that they were going to introduce the featherweight division, I was really excited. I thought, ‘look, okay, there’s this opportunity to go up to the big stage’, and they haven’t done anything. It’s kind of disappointing. I feel like I’m so close, but I’m not there yet. I think, I honestly don’t think I’m ever going to get there with the way things are going at the moment. I’ve got to do what’s best for me.”

The UFC has yet to make any comments about the state of the division, but Anderson doesn’t feel very confident that the organization will take the proper steps to bring the division to where it needs to be.

“The fact that they haven’t signed any actual featherweights, it just makes it look like they’re not interested in the division,” Anderson said. “Technically, now they only have one person in the featherweight division on their roster. They’re not signing anyone. It kind of makes me think that I’m not really looking forward to the UFC in my career right now because they’re not making the steps to introduce the division like they should.”

Anderson and Cris Cyborg had been both campaigning for a fight with one another at UFC 214 on July 29. With Anderson booking her next title defense for Invicta FC, the unknown of Cyborg’s future and the future of the women’s featherweight division, that fight will not be happening, much to the chagrin of MMA fans. Anderson knows that she and Cyborg will eventually have their day to share the cage, and she looks forward to making history with the greatest women’s featherweight fighter in the sport’s history.

“I respect the hell out of Cris,” Anderson said. “I got to meet her a few weekends ago out in Vegas and she’s a great ambassador for the sport, a great ambassador for women’s MMA and she’s been such a dominant force for such a long time. I have a lot of respect for her and I think it’s a mutual respect. None of us have talked bad about each other. At the end of the day, we’re gonna fight. It might not be now because the UFC has other plans. But that’s fine, I know that I want that fight and she wants the fight. It will happen one day and it will be the best fight in the history of the featherweight division.”

For now, Anderson will look to defend her newly won Invicta FC featherweight title against Kolesnyk on July 15. Invicta FC 24 will take place from the Scottish Rite Temple in Kansas City, Mo. and will air on UFC Fight Pass.