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Heavyweight Adam Milstead hopes to turn Curtis Blaydes into his latest ballad

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Adam Milstead picked up the guitar in ninth grade because he needed to take a class in the arts, and half a lifetime later he hasn’t put it down. The reason for that is simple. In 2017, just as in 2003, guitar holds a certain kind of allure.

“I always wanted to play guitar, because it was a good way to pick up chicks,” he says.

Milstead, who goes by the nickname “The Prototype” in the world of fighting, is a blue-collar, down-to-earth, corn-fed American everyman from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Yet he’s an ambitious fellow, too, given than his current Road to Greater Things involves trying to make a name for himself in the cage.