INGLEWOOD, Calif. – UFC women’s featherweight champion Cris Cyborg was in attendance this past Saturday night at the big Bellator 192 event.

That, in and of itself, is no big deal, of course. But couple it with Cyborg’s comment earlier in fight week to Bellator President Scott Coker that maybe she’d just need to slide over to Bellator just for some compeition, and it could’ve been enough to raise an eyebrow.

Cyborg’s comment had more to do with the UFC’s lack of an actual division for women at 145 pounds to serve as viable contenders to Cyborg’s title and not any kind of a threat to leave the UFC for Bellator.

But Coker said after the event at The Forum in Inglewood, Calif., that his past relationship with Cyborg, as well as the proximity of the event, that brought her out – not some kind of secret fighter poaching.

“She had just texted me and said, ‘Hey, I want to come (to the fights),’” Coker told MMAjunkie after Bellator 192. “She lives in L.A., (and) she’s always welcome to any of our fights that we do. She’s been around, she’s a legend, she’s a pioneer of female fighting. She used to fight for me (in Strikeforce), so we always had a good relationship. She wanted to come to the fights, and it was really that simple … I said, ‘Yeah, come over.’”

But Cyborg was sure to poke Coker a little about Bellator’s growing women’s roster and the lack of potential opponents for her at featherweight in the UFC.

“She did text me one thing before she left,” Coker said. “She said, ‘Stop taking all the girls (into Bellator).’ I just laughed. She’s under contract (with the UFC). We’re not going to interfere with anybody’s contract. We have plenty of fighters we’re booking and fighting. We have our hands full with this (heavyweight) tournament. So to me, it was just tongue in cheek.”

UFC President Dana White would like Cyborg (18-1 MMA, 3-0 UFC) to fight women’s 135-pound champ Amanda Nunes (15-4 MMA, 8-1 UFC) – but it would be another bantamweight fighting up against Cyborg, generally regarded as the best women’s fighter in history.

Cyborg won the vacant women’s featherweight title this past July against Tonya Evinger, who had been the Invicta FC bantamweight champ. She defended the belt in December against Holly Holm, a former UFC women’s bantamweight champ who had fought just once prior at featherweight.

For more on Bellator 192 check out the MMA Events section of the site.