Tanken var från början att Junior dos Santos skulle möta Alistair Overeem på UFC 160. Men förra veckan så skadade sig Overeem och tvingades ur matchen. Från början var tanken att matchen skulle flyttas till senare i sommar men istället kommer Mark Hunt att ersätta Overeem, något som Dos Santos verkar ganska nöjd över.
”I do not pick opponents, so for me it doesn’t matter who I’ll face,” säger Dos Santos till Tatame. ”I just need to know a date to prepare for the opponent. When Overeem dropped out, the UFC quickly found an excellent opponent, because I can not wait for the fight. Overeem is not champion, is nothing. If he was champion, I would have waited.
”Mark is a very tough guy, beating strong opponents. I have to be very careful. He has been champion in K-1, faced the best in the world and won striking exchanges. I will work hard to be strategic.”
Dos Santos valde sedan lite hårdare ord när han pratar om Overeem.
”I think this guy is a joke. He’s a big man when he’s pumped up from taking ’the bomb’ for the fight, and is talking a lot of nonsense. I have nothing to do with him. He can follow his own career and do what he thinks best. I’ll follow mine and if one day we are collide and he does not have any problem, we will fight. ”
