Junior Dos Santos
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Junior dos Santos Almeida (Portuguese pronunciation: ; born January 30, 1984) is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and a former UFC Heavyweight Champion. He is the #7 heavyweight in the world by Sherdog. He has victories over 5 UFC heavyweight Champions, Fabrício Werdum, Frank Mir, Cain Velasquez, Shane Carwin, and Stipe Miocic. He also holds wins over notable heavyweights Mark Hunt, Gabriel Gonzaga, Ben Rothwell and Roy Nelson. As of July 26, 2018, he is #7 in the official UFC heavyweight rankings.

Dos Santos was raised by a single mother. In order to help his family he started to work at the age of ten. He trained Capoeira throughout his teenage years before his first serious contact with martial arts happened at the age of 21, when he began training in Brazilian jiu-jitsu under Yuri Carlton. After only six months of training, dos Santos won a few jiu-jitsu tournaments in Salvador. One year later, Dos Santos was invited to join a boxing practice by a friend, where he met his boxing coach Luiz Carlos Dórea. Dórea also trained Mixed martial arts and roughly a year after he started training boxing he had his debut professional fight.