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Junior dos Santos wants to prove he’s the No. 1 heavyweight, starting with Alistair Overeem rematch

Junior dos Santos scored his first knockout win in more than five years at UFC Adelaide, stopping Tai Tuivasa in the main event attraction Saturday night. After the contest, the former UFC heavyweight champion expressed his interested in rematching Alistair Overeem, and explained the reasoning behind his callout at the post-fight press conference in Australia.

”I told I wanna fight him because that sounds right to do right now,” dos Santos said. “He got a good victory over… I forgot the name of the guy (Sergey Pavlovich). And man, that loss I had to him, for me, I still these days I didn’t accept that.