Junior dos Santos (21-9) is coming off four-straight stoppage losses in the UFC which in turn, resulted in him being released from the promotion. Since becoming a free agent, ‘JDS’ signed with a boxing promoter and this many expected his next fight to come in the squared circle. Yet, recently, he inked a deal with Ali Abdelaziz who quickly got him this contract with Triller.
Dos Santos last fought back at UFC 256 in December of 2020, where he suffered a TKO loss to Ciryl Gane. Prior to that, he suffered stoppage losses to Jairzinho Rozenstruik, Curtis Blaydes, and Francis Ngannou. Before his ugly string of setbacks, ‘JDS’ had won three-straight fights over Derrick Lewis, Tai Tuivasa, and Blagoy Ivanov. In his career, the former UFC heavyweight champion holds notable wins over Cain Velasquez, Frank Mir, Roy Nelson, Mirko Cro Cop, Stipe Miocic, and Mark Hunt among others.
Kubrat Pulev (28-2 in boxing) most recently competed in the main event of the inaugural Triller Triad Combat event where he TKO’d Frank Mir in the first round. In boxing, he’s the former IBF international heavyweight champion, European heavyweight title, and WBA Inter-Continental heavyweight belt.
In Pulev’s last boxing fight, he suffered a KO loss to Anthony Joshua for the WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO heavyweight titles. His other loss came to Wladimir Klitschko for the IBF and The Ring heavyweight belt. He holds notable wins over Hughie Fury, Derek Chisora, and Tony Thompson among others.
Triller is the retirement home.
Very sad
I love JDS, my favorite HW of all time.
Sad to see him go down like this
Yeah, this is not turning out well
Pulev is going to mop the floor with Dos Santos. It won’t even be competitive.
Hope Junior gets paid well because he’s gonna get punked in the ring.
This is basically setting himself to be murdered for hire. This could look worse than the Mur fight.
What a bizarre end to Pulev’s career. Trying his best not to kill old MMA fighters boxing in a triangle…
Definitely let Miragliotta have the night of for this one.
So this is a new trend? MMA fighters willing to get starched by boxers for a few $$$?? JDS doesn’t stand much more of a chance boxing Pulev as Mir did.
Gay
If JDS comes in juiced to the gills then I think he will do much better than Mir. The only time I remember Mir having good hands was when he was on TRT against Nogueira.
Nah, JDS can box way better than Mir but he still dies most likely
Gonna be a rough night for JDS & Belfort that evening.
In for another walk down destruction by Kubrat.
JDS shouldn’t even be given a license to fight after the way he has performed as of late. It’s almost Bob Sapp esque.
I think Vitor will win though.
I actually love these boxing vs MMA freakshows.
Especially when it’s boxing with MMA gloves like the Mir vs Pulev fight
I’d just like to see more prime vs prime
Ngannou vs an elite boxer like Pulev or Jake Paul
Obviously Francis would lose but it’d be interesting to see him test just how good his hands are at that next level