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Dana White: 'Cyborg' was never offered fight with Rousey at AT&T Stadium

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UFC president Dana White didn't wait long to kill rumors of a potential dream fight for a show that was never going to happen.

Tito Ortiz, the former manager of Cris "Cyborg" Justino, claimed that she had agreed to challenge current UFC Women's Bantamweight Champion Ronda Rousey at AT&T Stadium in the Lone Star State on Dec. 5 for UFC 194.

"To show you that Tito Ortiz has no idea what he's talking about, we're not even doing the fight in Dallas, Texas," White said to UFC.com. "The fight is going to be in Las Vegas at the MGM. Just to show you that Tito is absolutely talking out of his ass."

Not only will UFC 194 be in a completely different building, but it will also be taking place one week later on Dec. 12, with a featherweight title unification bout between Jose Aldo and Conor McGregor acting as the night's main event.

As far as Justino being promised a shot at Rousey is concerned, White acknowledged that he reached out to her following Rousey's TKO victory over Bethe Correia at UFC 190 to confirm that she'd be ready to make the weight drop to 135 pounds.

"The deal with Cyborg is, we told her to make 135 and then we would talk about a fight with Ronda," White said, via Yahoo Sports. "And they haven't done that. They're still talking about fighting at 140 (in her next fight in Invicta). What is wrong with these people? But we already said that Ronda was fighting Miesha Tate next and that's what we're going to do."

"That fight isn't going to be on the (Aldo-McGregor) card, for sure. If we were going to go to Dallas Cowboys Stadium, that's another story, but the MGM really wanted the fight and they made a huge effort for it and they got it. And it works out better for us to be in Las Vegas."

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