Junior Dos Santos knows what MVP wants, plans to give it, then stick around
Ex-UFC champion Junior dos Santos plans to return to his finishing ways Saturday on the Rousey vs. Carano main card.
VENICE, Calif. – It's been more than two years since Junior dos Santos put someone out with his hands. And before that, he'd gone five years without a knockout.
That wouldn't be the end of the world for some people, but JDS is a former UFC heavyweight champion. His gas tank almost certainly needs KOs more often than that. Saturday, Dos Santos (21-10) have another chance for one when he takes on Robelis Despaigne (5-2) to open the main card of MVP MMA's Netflix debut event.
"He's a big guy – very fast, actually, for how big he is, and he kicks very hard," Dos Santos told MMA Junkie and other reporters Wednesday ahead of a workout. "He has some good punches, and I'm ready for that. People have been saying that his ground game is not that good, and I'm always looking for the knockout.
I know MVP knows what they are doing – why they put me against him: two strikers. They want to see knockouts. " JDS will get things rolling ahead of a headliner of Ronda Rousey vs.