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No broken hand for Junior dos Santos?

By Zach Arnold | August 8, 2010

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FROM THE WEB SITE MMAFIGHTING.COM:

ARIEL HELWANI: “Junior, congratulations on a very, very big win. Were you happy with what you did out there?”

JUNIOR DOS SANTOS: “Thank you very much. It was a nice fight. He surprised me. He’s a very, very tough fighter and I’m very happy with this victory.”

ARIEL HELWANI: “Tougher than you thought he would be?”

JUNIOR DOS SANTOS: “Yeah. Tougher, tougher. Some guy told me he is a tough, tough guy but my thoughts about him now is that he’s tougher than I thought before.”

ARIEL HELWANI: “When you were hitting him with some of those shots, in your mind were you just thinking, ‘how’s this guy not going down’?”

JUNIOR DOS SANTOS: “Yeah, yeah, it’s unbelievable. He’s got a great defense, too, and man, it was a nice fight.”

ARIEL HELWANI: “Were you surprised that he didn’t try to take you down a couple more times?”

JUNIOR DOS SANTOS: “Yeah. I have pretty good wrestling and I trained that a lot, wrestling, all the arts, and my game plan was don’t let him put me down, you know. My game plan was good. I can do it. I can do what I trained for this fight, you know.”

ARIEL HELWANI: “You just got stitched up. How did you get that cut?”

JUNIOR DOS SANTOS: “He gave me a punch with his left hand, a hard punch, and cut my face.”

ARIEL HELWANI: “Speaking of left hands, I had heard from someone, I just want to confirm it. Did you break your left hand during the fight?”

JUNIOR DOS SANTOS: “In this fight?”

ARIEL HELWANI: “In this fight, did you injure your left hand at all?”

JUNIOR DOS SANTOS: “No, no, no, no, no. It hurts a little bit. Just hurts a little bit, my thumb. Yeah, right. Just it. It don’t hurt any more.”

ARIEL HELWANI: “So, now, up next for you, title shot. Have you thought about that yet or are you still recovering from this fight?”

JUNIOR DOS SANTOS: “Yeah, now I’m going to start thinking about this fight now but I am very happy for this and my dream is to be a UFC champion and I will.”

ARIEL HELWANI: “Have you had a chance to look back at your time here in the UFC? You’ve come in and you’ve really just impressed everyone and when you came in and fought Fabricio Werdum, not a lot of people knew who you were and you just came out on the scene and every step along the way you’ve just continued to look good and continue to really, you know, gain more fans. Have you had a chance to just sit back and go, wow, look what’s happened in less than two years to me?”

JUNIOR DOS SANTOS: “Yeah, yeah, very impressive with my fans and what happened now. Everything is very new in my life and it’s made me very happy but I think I deserve it because I train hard every day and I will continue in my career training harder than now.”

Watch the video to hear Junior talk about the Brock Lesnar/Cain Velasquez fight in October and his thoughts on who he may end up facing.

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