Dos Santos calls for bout with Oveereem, not Velasquez
If the decision were up to the champion, Overeem would be booked to the title fight immediately. That’s according to…
If the decision were up to the champion, Overeem would be booked to the title fight immediately. That’s according to UFC president Dana White, who added another element to the story during the UFC on Fox post-fight news conference, saying dos Santos was intent on an Overeem matchup.
“I sat down with Junior dos Santos yesterday,” White said. “He said, ‘I have nothing but respect for Cain Velasquez. I like him as a person and as a fighter and he deserves this shot, but I do not want to fight him.’
“He said, ‘Alistair Overeem is a punk. He’s got a big mouth and he’s been saying lots of bad things about me. I want to knock him out now.’ “
When asked how he felt about dos Santos preferring to fight Overeem, Velasquez’s trainer Javier Mendez said in a text, “Dos Santos camp has been ducking Cain from start to try and get Overeem fight.”