By Guilherme Cruz

Photo Josh Hedges

Junior dos Santos is the next challenger for the heavyweight belt of UFC, but the athlete, who fights out of Caçador, still doesn’t know when he’ll return to the octagon. Boxing coach of the fighter, Luis Carlos Dórea told TATAME that he’s still in charge of his basic training while Ultimate doesn’t call him. “I’ve heard some speculations, people said maybe it’ll be at the end of April in Canada (Toronto), but nothing has come to us yet. We’re doing the basic work, the technical part, and now we’re only waiting to know when it will happen”, tells Dórea.

On an interview given to TATAME, Cigano told that he’s doing much different training. After staying on the United States and then coming to Rio de Janeiro, the fighter will sharpen his bang with Dórea in Bahia until the official announcement of UFC, when he intends to return to America. “I’ve trained with Brandon Vera, who’s a tough guy, hard, used to fight with heavyweights. The trainings there were very good, we were very happy, but I have to come back home, recharge my batteries, put things on their places around here (laughs)… When I know the date I’ll continue the trainings there”.