Junior dos Santos

Mr. P- uh, Mr. Plotz, don't tell Brent, but Big Country is mine.

His fight with Junior Dos Santos is one of my most brutal fights I've ever seen.

Um, as far as guys not getting the belt, that's interesting.

Thomas, oh, yeah, yeah.

He did not do that with Jon Jones.

He did do that with Junior Dos Santos.

But I don't think to this level.

But then that's a question.

But that being said, we never changed him.

If you go back and watch his fight with Junior dos Santos the second time, he came out and he was on his hands and knees chasing around on double legs, single legs-

Mm-hmm

... because he understood the power.

Like, sure, just keep ramming in our face.

I'll fake this all, right? And during the post-match brawl at the end, how did you like 50-year-old Jericho being able to out-punch Junior Dos Santos, who I'm not terribly familiar with, but I'm told he's a Hall of Fame UFC legend.

So, what do you guys think?

Yeah, that was a little, a little, that was pretty special.

And, uh, Really like that Philly crowd pepping back up after being dead for that match.

I'm curious to see.

I think they said Junior Dos Santos is going to be in a six-man tag with Scorpio Sky and Ethan Page down in Miami.

Is that a

And that's what kinda like sidelined him a little bit.

'Cause he beat Junior dos Santos, right, to get the title?

Yeah.

T- I think, no, he, uh, he lost, right? And then he came back and-

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Junior dos Santos and Stipe.

Am I wrong?

Uh, y- you're-

But you like watching the heavier guys fight?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was, like, I've always just been, like, watching Cain Velasquez, Junior dos Santos, you know, that Brock Lesnar era, you know, Frank Mir, uh-

Stipe Miocic

... yeah, all those guys.

He KO'd Josh Perishian in 18 seconds on his debut, and then the UFC cut him.

He went to beat Junior Dos Santos and ran through Karate Kombat.

The hole is the same one for Cortez Acosta and Austin Lehner, rather the ones that they showed.

If you crowd him and clinch him and make it a fight instead of a kicking range seminar, the giant starts really looking a bit lost, Pip.

He's great in karate combat.

He's great when someone's not going to try and take him down.

We always knew Junior Dos Santos was not big enough, strong enough, or grappling heavy enough to try and take him down.

So that didn't happen.

I'm not high for his UFC hopes.

I was honestly hoping after what he did to Dos Santos, who I know is over the hill, I was kind of hoping, oh, okay, this guy's made some adjustments, and he's going to come back, and it's like, ah, not at all.

No, the UFC only signed him so that Francis wouldn't have anyone to fight in PFL, MMA, or MVP.

So that's what happened.