Junior Dos Santos News
Friday 05.24.2013 1:20am ET | View Full Article
LAS VEGAS -- Junior dos Santos discusses if he was nervous that Mark Hunt wouldn't show up, how long it took him to get over his loss to Cain Velasquez physically, how he has changed things up in his camp, what will be his and Bigfoot's strategies at UFC 160, and more.
Friday 05.24.2013 12:53am ET | View Full Article
LAS VEGAS -- Mark Hunt discusses his travel experiences to get to Las Vegas, his hair, his opponent Junior dos Santos, and much more.
Friday 05.24.2013 12:00am ET | View Full Article
Cain Velasquez fighting in the Strikeforce heavyweight division?
Believe it.
The man who would be king made his mixed martial arts (MMA) debut inside the Hexagon nearly seven years ago at the Save Mart Center from the campus of California State University in Fresno. Headlining the card was a 265-pound main event featuring David Abbott vs. Paul Buentello.
Yes, there was a time when "Tank" was a...
Thursday 05.23.2013 11:25pm ET | View Full Article
Former UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos spoke briefly with MMAweekly.com ahead of his fight with the notoriously heavy-handed striker Mark Hunt at UFC 160.
Thursday 05.23.2013 11:21pm ET | View Full Article
Surging UFC heavyweight Mark Hunt gives his thoughts ahead of his UFC 160 showdown with former champion Junior dos Santos.
Thursday 05.23.2013 9:00pm ET | View Full Article
Junior dos Santos is the youngest star in the heavyweight division. With a record of 15-2 and UFC heavyweight title already to his name he's accomplished as much as most heavyweights will in their entire career, and he's only 28. However that incredible success has come with a hefty price. He sat down with Yahoo! Sports' Kevin Iole to discuss his various MMA injuries.
Iole asked Cigano, first an...
Thursday 05.23.2013 9:00pm ET | View Full Article
UFC 160: "Velasquez vs. Bigfoot 2" goes down this Saturday night (May 25, 2013) from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, and after nearly a month-long break, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) returns to pay-per-view (PPV) with a highly anticipated event.
A heavyweight championship affair headlines the event as exactly one-year after their first meeting, Cain Velasquez and Ant...
Thursday 05.23.2013 8:35pm ET | View Full Article
LAS VEGAS -- Check out the intense staredowns between Cain Velasquez and Antonio Silva, Junior dos Santos and Mark Hunt, T.J. Grant and Gray Maynard and Donald Cerrone and K.J. Noons.
Thursday 05.23.2013 8:29pm ET | View Full Article
Former UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos spoke briefly with MMAweekly.com ahead of his fight with the notoriously heavy-handed striker Mark Hunt at UFC 160.
Thursday 05.23.2013 8:00pm ET | View Full Article
Current Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Heavyweight division ruler, Cain Velasquez, will look to defend his throne against perpetual underdog, Antonio Silva, this Saturday (May 25, 2013) at UFC 160, a pay-per-view (PPV) event that takes place at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
UFC 155 was a night of redemption for Velasquez, who proved he was the best in the world, beating Juni...
Thursday 05.23.2013 7:23pm ET | View Full Article
Surging UFC heavyweight Mark Hunt gives his thoughts ahead of his UFC 160 showdown with former champion Junior dos Santos.
Thursday 05.23.2013 7:17pm ET | View Full Article
Heavyweights. Heavy hands. Heavy stakes.
That's how Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is billing the titanic tilt between Cain Velasquez vs. Antonio Silva, which sits atop the UFC 160: "Velasquez vs. Bigfoot 2" pay-per-view (PPV) fight card, set to blow the roof off the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 25, 2013.
Rematch or no rematch, that's one helluva staredown.
Bringing...
Thursday 05.23.2013 7:00pm ET | View Full Article
Two of the most dangerous heavyweights in the world will collide this Saturday night (May 25, 2013) as former UFC champion Junior dos Santos takes on kickboxing veteran Mark Hunt in the co-main event of UFC 160 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Junior dos Santos
Record: 15-2 overall, 9-1 in the UFC
Key Wins: Cain Velasquez (UFC on Fox), Shane Carwin (UFC 131), Frank Mir (UFC 146)
Key Losses: Cain Velasqu...
Thursday 05.23.2013 6:00pm ET | View Full Article
Veteran mixed martial arts (MMA) referee Mario Yamasaki will be the third man in the cage for Saturday's (May 25, 2013) UFC 160 main event.
Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) executive director Keith Kizer recommended that the 49-year-old Yamasaki be the referee for the Cain Velasquez vs. Antonio Silva heavyweight championship contest that headlines UFC 160 during a commission meeting last ...
Thursday 05.23.2013 4:45pm ET | View Full Article
Thursday 05.23.2013 4:30pm ET | View Full Article
"Power is something nature bestows upon people," warns UFC color commentator Joe Rogan.
Junior dos Santos developed a near-fatal medical condition after he fought Cain Velasquez at UFC 155
Thursday 05.23.2013 4:01pm ET | View Full Article
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How awesome would it be if just after UFC 155, Junior dos Santos was caught in the experimental detonation of a military bomb and exposed to massive amounts of gamma radiation, woke up and then realized that he had the exact powers of the Incredible Hulk? In reality there's no way of verifying that this didn't actually happen. Imagine if JDS never disclosed to the Nevada State Athletic Commissi...
Thursday 05.23.2013 4:00pm ET | View Full Article
Thursday 05.23.2013 3:04pm ET | View Full Article
Turns out the most dangerous opponent Junior dos Santos ever faced was himself.
The former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heavyweight champion was training so hard prior to his UFC 155 title fight against Cain Velasquez, which took place last December in "Sin City," that he developed rhabdomyolysis, a (sometimes fatal) breakdown of muscle fibers that releases their contents into the bloods...
Thursday 05.23.2013 2:46pm ET | View Full Article
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If you were named 'Bigfoot' and you enrolled in a nickname contest and somehow you lost, it was rigged. Being nicknamed after a mythical creature who is forever blurry when captured on camera is the highest honor anyone can bestow on an MMA fighter. Let's not assume that because Bigfoot Silva caught an L to Daniel Cormier that it removes him from being discussed in the top ten heav...