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Birth Name: Junior dos Santos Almeida
Place of Birth: Caçador, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Date of Birth: 30 January, 1984
Ethnicity: Brazilian
Junior dos Santos is a Brazilian mixed martial artist and professional wrestler. He is known for his work in UFC and AEW, and has been a UFC Heavyweight Champion and Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA Heavyweight Champion. He is also known as Cigano. He is 6′4″.
Junior is the son of Maria de Lourdes de Almeida and Sebastião de Jesus Almeida. He was raised by his single mother. A picture of Junior and his mother can be seen here . Junior is Catholic. He has two children.