After his loss to Junior dos Santos at UFC Fight Night 86, Ben Rothwell lamented that the fight was a "strategically stupid" one for him to have accepted, considering how close Rothwell was to a UFC heavyweight title shot and the fact that dos Santos was coming off a loss. Though, unsurprisingly, dos Santos disagrees with that idea.
"If you're winning, you have to fight with anyone," dos Santos said Monday on The MMA Hour. "If you want to be the champion, you can't pick opponents. So if he would like to be the champion, at some point he should fight against me or all the other guys.