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Junior dos Santos is ‘a different fighter today’, but would knock Fabricio Werdum out again

A lot has changed since the first time Junior dos Santos was booked into a fight against Alistair Overeem, and "Cigano" has looked to make improvements ahead of his UFC on FOX 17 clash with the Dutch heavyweight.

A former UFC heavyweight champion, dos Santos moved his camp to Nova Uniao and returned to the win column with a hard-fought decision victory over Stipe Miocic in his only appearance inside the Octagon in 2014. Yet training in a gym full of lightweights wasn’t the right fit for a 240-pound boxer.