It may come as a shock that Shane Roller doesn’t want to stand and trade with Melvin Guillard – if you’ve been watching MMA for all of two weeks.
But if you haven’t, you know as well as Roller how dangerous Guillard is on his feet, and how strategically unsound it would be to hang out there.
Even with a picture-perfect knockout on his recent resume, Roller isn’t taking any chances when he fights Guillard in a Spike TV-televised preliminary-card bout at Saturday’s UFC 132 event.