Junior Dos Santos on Velasquez “he’s going to get knocked out again”

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“When I hurt my knee 10 days before the fight, I was very worried,” dos Santos said. “I’m not shy to say, but I cried. I was two days walking with crutches, and that was very tough for me. But then I started to do my physical therapy, and my knee came around again.”

“I think they’re training very hard because now, everybody knows everything,” dos Santos said. “You can’t surprise the guy by wrestling, boxing, jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai. Everybody is very well prepared for the fight.”

“Especially with the champion, they have to work a lot to keep the belt,” dos Santos said. “In this sport, you have to give 100 percent of you to have a good career. Sometimes you get hurt. When you are the champion, it is better for you to pull out of the fight. But at that time for me, I was the one challenging the champion. I was waiting for that chance for too much time. I couldn’t lose that chance.”

“When I beat Roy Nelson, I had my chance to fight for the title,” dos Santos said. “Then something happened with Cain. I stayed waiting for him for one year. I asked for another fight and they put me on ‘TUF.’ I fought Shane Carwin and that was very dangerous.” Dos Santos holds up his fists. “Everyone knows he has bombs, right? After I took that Carwin fight and won, nothing was going to keep me out of my fight with Cain.”

“I think considering me as the first heavyweight in the world, I think Cain is the second one for sure, at this time,” dos Santos said. “I want to fight with the best fighters in the world, Cain Velasquez for sure will give me his best. I love to knock out people, I would love to do it again. He is pretty good on his feet, but, if he accepts to fight standing with me again he’s going to get knocked out again.”

Dos Santos is of two minds on Overeem: One, he doesn’t believe the former K-1, Strikeforce and Dream champion deserves a title shot given his circumstances, but the other being that he sincerely wishes to punch Overeem in the face.

“I don’t think he deserves it,” dos Santos said. “He just failed a drug test. That’s bad, that’s very bad for the title. But I want to fight him. That’s different. I don’t think he deserves to fight for the title, but I want to beat him, because he said a lot of … he lied. He lied. I want that fight. I would enjoy to fight with him. But it doesn’t mean he deserves to fight for the title. What’s important now is Cain Velasquez.”

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