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Former heavyweight champ Junior dos Santos predicts a second-round knockout victory over Francis Ngannou at UFC 239.

Junior dos Santos will look to become the first man to knock out Francis Ngannou at UFC 239, and the former heavyweight champion is confident he gets the job done in the second round.

Speaking to Helen Yee in a recent interview, ‘Cigano,’ a UFC veteran of over ten years, said he plans to gauge his timing in the first round and execute the knockout in the second.

“I would knock him out,” he said (transcript via Abhinav Kini of LowKickMMA.com). “I believe second round. I’m very confident with the second round because the first round, I’m always taking time to see what my opponent is offering me, is trying to do during the fight.