Mike Malott prepares to take on former UFC welterweight title challenger Gilbert Burns in a Manitoba-based matchup, with a previous training partner of the former has weighed in on the big clash at 170 pounds.<\/p>\n
Speaking ahead of a recent contest he participated in under the Real American Freestyle<\/a> banner, Clay Guida covered several aspects of his vast career. For \u2018The Carpenter\u2019 that included a stint working with Team Alpha Male and past instances that saw him shout out teammate Mike Malott.<\/p>\n When asked for his thoughts on the Mike Malott versus Gilbert Burns fight that tops the marquee of UFC Winnipeg on April 18th, Guida said [via Bowks Talking Bouts<\/a>],<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, that\u2019s gonna be a great one. Mikey, \u2018Proper\u2019 Mike Malott, man. One of my favorites. I don\u2019t know how that guy; I don\u2019t know if a lot of people know his backstory. He\u2019s a 170-pounder now. He fought at \u201955 for a while. The dude used to fight 145 for a little bit, too. He\u2019s an absolute giant. When I met him at the gym at Team Alpha Male, I was like, \u201cUrijah [Faber], is this guy like one of the only 185 pounders, the only middleweight you guys got?\u201d He\u2019s like, \u201cGuida, that dude fights at lightweight.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m like, \u201cOh, boy.\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cI might have to go down to 135 [laughs].\u201d He just destroys guys, man, in the gym. He\u2019s so technical. He\u2019s a great trainer, a great training partner. He teaches classes while he\u2019s there. Just breaks everything down so very well. Just very well spoken, great leader. It\u2019s just awesome to see him because there was a time before he was in the UFC, he almost hung up the gloves for mixed martial arts. There was a time because he was banged up.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe was having a hard time making 155. I told him and I\u2019m sure other people did too, man, enough of the cutting weight. Go explore 170, you\u2019re huge. Put some weight [on], continue to put weight on. Stay strong. Focus more on your skills instead of the weight cut all the time and the negative parts of the sport. Do what motivates you. Do what you like. Have fun at this. He won one fight, maybe two, at that CFFC out in Philly. He knocked the dude out and I think a couple months later he was in the UFC.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe went on maybe a three to five fight win streak. He dropped one and now he\u2019s on a win streak again. What\u2019s his record now in the UFC? Is he five or six and one or maybe six and two or something?\u2026 He\u2019s been doing great and he\u2019s got a newfound motivation in the UFC. It\u2019s great to see that. I\u2019m glad that him and Gilbert Burns, another friend of mine, are going to clash.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Mike Malott is in \u201ca matchup that everyone needs to check out\u201d at UFC Winnipeg, per Guida<\/p>\n Mike Malott will also become the first Canadian combatant since June 2020, to headline a UFC event with Felicia Spencer\u2019s title bid at UFC 250 being the last instance of this taking place. Responding to that historically significant factoid within the great fight north, Guida stated [via Bowks Talking Bouts<\/a>],<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, it\u2019s pretty amazing, man. So, very well deserved for both of those guys. It\u2019s cool to see Gilbert Burns, another guy that just continues to fight the top guys. He\u2019s always right there, in my eyes. Gilbert\u2019s one or two wins away from being right back in the top five. Always in title contention, always entertaining, the fighter spirit, and the guy just leaves it all out there every time. So that\u2019s going to be a matchup that everyone needs to check out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Malott prepares to take on former UFC welterweight title challenger Gilbert Burns in a Manitoba-based matchup, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,5777,786,22190,133826,785,85,787,267461],"class_list":["post-539604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-clay-guida","tag-fighting","tag-gilbert-burns","tag-mike-malott","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}