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Junior dos Santos seeking heavyweight title fight before Daniel Cormier’s retirement

Junior dos Santos is hopeful of a title fight against current UFC heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier, before ‘DC’ eventually retires.

Dos Santos (20-5) is on a two-fight winning streak for the first time since 2011/12, defeating Blagoy Ivanov by decision and most recently beating Tai Tuivasa by TKO in December. “Cigano” will hope to make it three wins in a row when he takes on former title challenger Derrick Lewis in March.

”Derrick Lewis just fought for the belt, he’s No. 2 in that ranking the UFC does, so it’s a great fight,” dos Santos told MMA Fighting.