Grappling ace Ricardo Almeida welcomes Matt Brown’s striking aggression at UFC 111

UFC welterweight Matt Brown quickly turned heads as one scary, aggressive guy on “The Ultimate Fighter 7” and has kept that reputation intact since the show. He’s shrugged off a pedestrian record to emerge as a serious threat to the 170-pound division with three TKO wins in five post-“TUF” fights.

Ricardo Almeida, Brown’s next opponent at UFC 111, is impressed by the Ohio fighter’s run in the UFC. But aggression plays right into his hand.

“I always like fighting aggressive guys,” Almeida recently told MMAjunkie.com. “I think it makes it a little bit easier than fighting someone who’s going to play a very tactical approach.”