The Junior dos Santos we've been waiting on, the one whose skills took him all the way to the UFC heavyweight championship, showed up Sunday in Zagreb.
Dos Santos looked like a reinvigorated fighters in the main event of UFC Fight Night 86, the UFC's debut card in Croatia. Instead of the headhunter who has been seen in recent fights, the former champion used slick movement and a wide variety of punishing strikes to overwhelm a game Ben Rothwell.
The judges' scores were 50-45 across the board for dos Santos (18-4), who won for the second time in his past three fights and the third in his past six.