Former UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos has a personal reason for wanting to defeat Tai Tuivasa when the two men meet in Adelaide, Australia, in December. It’s a reason that goes back to UFC 225, when Bruce Buffer introduced the Aussie as a representative of ‘street fighting’ for his fight against another former UFC champ, Andrei Arlovski.
For Dos Santos, it’s a label that goes against what he believes MMA stands for and should represent. In an interview for Sporting News, the Brazilian called his next opponent a coward for behaving this way.
“In his last fight, with Arlovski, when Bruce Buffer was introducing him, he said he represents street fighting,” dos Santos told Sporting News.