WICHITA, Kan. – As “a huge fight nerd,” Curtis Millender would have known whomever the UFC had offered him as an opponent. So, when they offered Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos (20-5 MMA, 6-1 UFC), whom Millender (17-3 MMA, 3-0 UFC) meets in the co-main event of Saturday’s UFC on ESPN+ 4, he was excited. “I definitely like his style,” Millender told reporters, including MMA Junkie, in a media day ahead of the card, which streams live on ESPN from from INTRUST Bank Arena “He fought a guy that I train with, Sean Strickland, and I was like, ‘OK, if he can do that to him, let’s go.’” By “that,” Millender means that dos Santos TKO’d Strickland after landing a beautiful spinning heel kick to his temple. That was the fifth win of dos Santos’ current UFC streak – which he added to last September, with yet another eye-popping knockout.
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