By Mark Bergmann @MarkBergmann on Jun 3, 2015, 9:01a
Just like Ben Henderson, lightweight champion RDA wants to fight at welterweight in the future.
A little more than two months have passed since Rafael dos Anjos dethroned lightweight kingpin Anthony Pettis at UFC 185 and crowned himself the new 155-pound UFC champion. He won't defend the belt anytime soon, as the Brazilian will likely be out until the end of the year with a knee injury sustained only weeks before the fight. So RDA obviously has lots of time to think about things, and he just came up with this idea recently.
"I just got my lightweight belt. I'm looking forward to defending it a couple of times, then maybe I'll do some fights in the welterweight division in the future," he told MMA Junkie. "I think once I get older, I'm going to get tired of cutting weight. I could just go there and fight (at welterweight). I think that's my goal. I'm going to defend my belt a couple of times and maybe go to the welterweight division and do some superfights like Ben Henderson."
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