LOS ANGELES – Newly minted UFC middleweight Kevin Holland would have dwelled on his sudden call up to the big leagues at UFC 227, but he had grown men trying to choke him out. After jiu-jitsu practice, the news settled in for the Dana White’s Contender Series vet. He’s feeling surprisingly comfortable with a fight against Thiago “Marreta” Santos, which serves on the pay-per-view main card of Saturday’s event at Staples Center in Los Angeles. “I didn’t even know who the guy was, to be honest,” said Holland (12-3 MMA, 0-0 UFC), a Fort Worth, Texas resident who’d previously planned to vie for a short-notice spot on the UFC 228 card in Dallas. “I was just like, ‘Yeah, whatever.’ We’re all men here, so you can’t be scared of another man, right
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