Thiago Santos is yet to make his PFL debut but already has ambitious plans as he wants to become a two-weight world champion.
Santos, 39, takes on Rob Wilkinson tonight in the opening round of the PFL's light-heavyweight regular season. Wilkinson is the reigning 205lb champion as the Australian knocked out Omari Akhmedov in last year's final to capture $1million in prize money. UFC veteran Santos, who took Jon Jones to the only split decision of his career in 2019, has admitted that heavyweight is in his future plans as cutting down to 205lb has become more of a struggle with age.
"Why not? It's absolutely possible," Santos said of a heavyweight move to Mirror Fighting. "Light-heavyweight is still my division but it's never easy to make the weight. I can fight in the heavyweight division too, I'm 39 years old and each time is getting harder to cut the weight down. I'm heavy now and I've been thinking a few times about moving to heavyweight, but I want to start this year at light-heavyweight and then next year we will see."
