Junior dos Santos picked up a huge knockout victory over Derrick Lewis on Saturday night and has called for a fight with fellow heavyweight contender Francis Ngannou.
The former champion stopped Lewis in the second round in Wichita to make it three straight victories inside the octagon.
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Lewis was ranked third at heavyweight going into the fight and Dos Santos (#8) now wants a crack at the world number two, Francis Ngannou.
The Brazilian was due to face Ngannou in 2017 but the fight was cancelled due to a doping infringement, but now Dos Santos wants to put it back together.
‘I think that would be great,’ said Dos Santos on the prospect of facing Ngannou. ‘It should happen in the past, because of something weird it didn’t happen but maybe now it can happen.’
Ngannou is coming off back-to-back first round stoppages over Curtis Blaydes and Cain Velasquez and has called for a shot at heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier.
“Junior dos Santos has knocked out the Black Beast!”
Three wins in a row for ‘Cigano’ ?
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Dos Santos believes that he and Ngannou are both in the mix for a shot at ‘DC’ but blasted the idea of Brock Lesnar getting to fight for the title.
‘The right fight to do in the heavyweight division would be I don’t know Stipe [Miocic] or [Francis] Ngannou or even me, Dos Santos said.
‘I heard something about Jon Jones coming up to heavyweight to fight him. That would make more sense than Brock Lesnar fighting.’
‘Cigano’ stopped ‘The Black Beast’ after a wild first round which saw Dos Santos hurt Lewis with a spinning kick to the body, only to then be dropped by a huge right hand.
However, it was a big right hand from the Brazilian that was the beginning of the end for Lewis, before a barrage of strikes forced referee Herb Dean to step in.
The Kansas event also saw big wins for Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos over Curtis Millender via first round submission and for Niko Price, who knocked out Tim Means in the first.
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