PHOENIX — Junior dos Santos talks about his long layoff, shifting teams, his fight against Stipe Miocic at UFC on FOX 13, his position in the section, and much more.
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LOS ANGELES – Like every great trainer, Gilbert Melendez did his job heading to The Ultimate Fighter 20. The prior Strikeforce lightweight champ scouted ability and made mental notes on which combatants he favored to decide when it came time for him and matching trainer Anthony Pettis to draft their teams.
But Melendez was hit using a curveball he was not anticipating. UFC matchmakers added a wrinkle to the show’s structure and pre-seeded the girls’s strawweight opponents from one through 16. If one trainer decided the No. 1 combatant, the other trainer was given No. 16; if one required No. 2, the other got No. 15, and so on.
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