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Tuivasa has words for Willis following loss to JDS in Adelaide: ‘Big Pretty!? You’re f—ing ugly’

Tai Tuivasa was not in the best mood after UFC Adelaide. An understandable state of emotion following his first career loss, against former champion Junior dos Santos, via TKO in the second round. The stoppage put a sudden halt to his seemingly meteoric rise through the heavyweight division, turning a 3-0 start to his UFC career to 3-1.

Tuivasa spoke to the assembled media after the fight, and addressed what went wrong — or at the very least, failed to go right.

“Just bummed, man,” Tuivasa responded when asked about the fight. “F-ck, just bummed, you know?