("You’ve got some schmutz on your face. Let me get it for you.")
Fast-rising UFC heavyweight contender Junior Dos Santos is considering following in the footsteps of his training partner and South American boxing champion Antonio Rogerio Nogueira by stepping into the boxing ring in the near future to compete.
Dos Santos, who is currently stuck in a holding pattern waiting to find out who he will be matched up against next, may try his hands at the sweet science in the interim. A report by Tatame today reveals that "Cigano" was slated to make his boxing debut in early 2010, but the bout was postponed due to his back-to-back UFC bouts against Gilbert Yvel and Gabriel Gonzaga.
According to Dos Santos’ boxing trainer Carlos Dorea, who also trains several Brazilian national boxing team champions, Junior was not out of place when sparring with any of the more seasoned boxers he works with and he says that he expects him to go far in the sport.
"The first step would [have been] the Brazilian championship, after he beat Cro Cop. He was the super heavy holder of the Bahia’s team, but UFC scheduled his fight with Gilbert Yvel, so I had to take him off the team”, explains Dórea, confident that the UFC’s athlete talent could bring Olympic medals to Brazil. “His evolving is fantastic, he has one of the best boxing techniques of international MMA. If everything goes right, he will compete on this area and, who knows, in the future he can bring a few medals to Brazil… He is a phenomenon."
A date has not been set for Dos Santos’ pugilistic debut.
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commentsDo it, it makes too much sense.
@rob45usp - who has Carwin fought... mir (lesnar beat), gonzaga (who lost to couture) and 3 chumps who aren't in the ufc anymore.
"Take Carwins size away and the guy isn't worth shit"
"Take Shaqs size away and the guy isn't worth shit"
"Take (insert big guys name) size away and the guy isn't worth shit"
I must've become a mature adult somewhere along the line, because I find myself defending Lesnar even when I don't like him.
He does deserve the title he has right now. Absolutely. When he won it, there was no one to stand in his way. And by that I mean, there was no force within the UFC that could have stopped him. He beat the top contenders and title holders to get it. Now it's up to him to keep it.
We all saw the same pace to the title with A. Silva: 2 fights and here's the championship for you. Nobody can say he didn't earn it then, and btw he is still the undefeated champ now. I'll save the commentary on his state of mind for another thread.
So that's 2 champs who won their belts in a mad rush, but there's 2 champs who have crushed all opposition before them since becoming champions. They're still undefeated as champs today, and you can't argue with that.
That's almost exactly like saying, "Take away Penn's jiu-jitsu and he's got nothing." Brock Lesnar is bigger than everybody else. Deal with it. Size does matter when you fight, and big men tend to win.
At the time he fought Mir and Couture, they were the top of the HW division...just because the division now has Dos Santos, Carwin, Velasquez, etc is not Lesnar's fault, and this isn't the WWE, he can't fight them all at once in a 4 corners (or would it be 8 corners in the UFC?) match.
Also, why should anyone discount his wrestling? THATS what he does...No one ever says, "Take GSP's wrestling away and he's got nothing." I'm not trying to be a Lesnar nuthugger here, but I'm at least going to give him the benefit of the doubt, if Carwin runs through Lesnar, I'll start to second guess him.
JDS signed by Don King, agrees to drop to welter weight to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. in a steel cage match for Vince McMahon. Chairs, ladders and trash cans will be allowed, but not until after JDS and his corner all agree to submit to public Olympic-standard blood, urine, feces, and hair sample testing for such known and banned performance enhancing drugs as Marijuana, black beauties, or nipple tweaks.
For as much as the Fertitta's and White are banking, you'd think they'd pay better.
And if he were to succeed big time, parlay it into a shot with a contender or three, drum up some interest and maybe be considered a potential opponent for either Klitschko Brother??? By all means do it. He'll make more in a couple of big pro boxing matches than he will in an entire career in the UFC. Which, in case you didn't know, stands for Underfunded Friggin CrapshitslavewagespaidbyDanaWhite.
If you don't like his attitude, who cares...He's not a role model (at least, unlike most athletes, he understands this)...I'm reserving judgement on his attitude until mid-June when it's time to build up the Carwin fight...Til then, I'll chalk it all up to the fact that he had legit hatred for Mir, which I can understand, the dude's a douche.
Better? Good.
I mean call brock lesnar a faggot all you want, but unexperienced?? He's a NCAA D1 wrestling champ, and thats apparently all he needed to run through the HW divsion at the time. I mean I still hate him, but give credit where credit is due.
I guess this is a possibility because, as the article says, JDS is in a holding pattern for now in the HW division. Could be a smart decision--let him continue to advance his striking skills, work him in for some UFC fights when able. Eventually, they'll be able to promote him as an unstoppable wrecking machine. Well, more so than they can now.
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