JDS: I don’t want to fight on the ground
The degree to which Junior dos Santos will own the heavyweight division is traced directly to this: Can he, when…
The degree to which Junior dos Santos will own the heavyweight division is traced directly to this: Can he, when pressed to do so, fight on the floor?
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He says he can. People who have trained with the new UFC champion say the same. We just haven’t seen it in action because he hasn’t found it necessary yet. And based on the way he’s talking, it sounds like, regardless of who wins UFC’s main event on Dec. 30 (a clash between giants Brock Lesnar and Alistair Overeem for a title shot against dos Santos), the answer could be revealed very soon.
“I don’t want to fight on the ground,” dos Santos told ESPN Brasil. “I prefer to fight stand up. I prefer to use my boxing fighting, so that’s what I try to do in all my fights. But [in] my next fight, [if] I think I can win the fight on the ground, I will try to do jiu-jitsu with my opponent.”
That’s an interesting way of phrasing things.
