Category Archives: Junior Dos Santos

Junior “Cigano” Dos Santos is one of, if not the, baddest men on the planet…and he’s one of us. The newly crowned Ultimate Fighting Championship’s (UFC) Heavyweight Champion of the World; Dos Santos won the belt via brutal knockout at the first ever UFC on FOX event; adding former champion Cain Velasquez to his impressive list of defeated opponents. In his eight fights under the UFC banner, we’ve seen “Cigano” continually improve, growing more and more dominant…and growing less and less hair. When he first showed up at UFC 90 to molly-wop Fabricio Werdum, he had what appeared to be the last days of a full head of hair; it looked a little thinning and receded, but it was still there. These days though, he keeps his head completely shaven, or at least close to it, and you can see that his hairline has dropped back really far (especially at the corners), and he’s even be balding on top a bit. I’m also guessing that he had even more hair at some point in his life because his nickname is Portuguese for ”gypsy”, and he got it because he used to keep his hair in a ponytail at practice. My math says: ponytail=had hair; I think that’s pretty sound. So it would seem that he’s traded his long locks for the UFC belt; that’s a smart trade, and I would like to extend an invitation for him to join the ranks of The Bald Army as a Lt. , because if there’s one thing we need more of, it’s terrifying giant Brazilians.