With Scott Coker's announcement that a fight between Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos and "Rowdy" Ronda Rousey is "inevitable," some would say that matchup represents a changing of the guard as "the face of women's MMA."

Rousey took the fight community by storm over the past year, but Santos has been overwhelming opponents since 2005.

Is this a clash of the present vs the future?

"Cyborg" has been a dominating figure in the sport for so long that many forget she's still just 26 years old and should have plenty of gas left in the tank. Even without performance-enhancing drugs, I believe she'll be a force in women's MMA for the long haul.

"I think that fight will happen at some point," Coker told MMAFighting.com, referring to a future tilt between Rousey and Santos. "We're just waiting for Cyborg to get off her suspenion but that conversation will happen once she's back ready to fight because her and Ronda at 135-pounds? That might be the highest rated show on Showtime for the year or for the past fights we've done."

He added that "Women's fights always rate well on Showtime and Ronda's always delivered. That armbar is unbelievable. She's proved with Miesha, she's proven with other girls, that she can fight a kickboxer, she can fight a wrestler. Fighting Cyborg? That's a whole other level. It's just a fight I would really like to sit down and watch and just be a fan but I think that Sean is going to try to put that fight together at some point."

But before Rousey gets a crack at Santos, she is expected to defend her Strikeforce women's bantamweight belt later this summer against Sarah Kaufman.

As for Santos, she is suspended until December, and there's no way Rousey is going to wait that long without notching at least one fight under her belt.

If Rousey fights Kaufman in July or August, that would set up the perfect timetable for an early-2013 bout between her and Santos.

Many speculated that Rousey would be fighting on the "Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Kennedy" card on July 14, but the UFC posted the press release about the card onto their website on May 29 and her name was nowhere to be found on it.

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