Mike Malott and his younger brother Jeff have been running parallel professional paths for several years. From getting the first meaningful call in pursuit of their individual dreams in the same week to the No. 39 representing the seconds it took Mike to win on Dana White’s Contender Series and the number Jeff wears as a gritty winger for the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings, the synergy between the two is both uncanny and frequent.
And it continues next month when the elder of the Waterdown, Ontario tandem makes his first UFC main event appearance opposite Gilbert Burns when the Octagon returns to Winnipeg on April 18 at Canada Life Centre.