FORTALEZA, Brazil – After a pair of illegal knees by Tim Means put a confusing no-contest end to their first encounter, Alex Oliveira was quick to ask for a home-country rematch. His request paid off big time. After managing to outwork Means (26-8-1 MMA, 8-5 UFC) en route to a rear-naked choke finish in the second round of UFC Fight Night 106’s main-card opener, Oliveira (17-3-1 MMA, 6-2 UFC) said the game plan remained unaltered from their first action-packed go-’round to Saturday’s more one-sided affair. “Nothing changed,” Oliveira said after the FS1-televised welterweight scrap at Centro de Formacao Olimpica in Fortaleza, Brazil. “My coaches told me to do the same thing: Believe in the potential, in the wrestling, to believe I have the strength, take him down, get to his back and do my job.
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