WICHITA, KS - MARCH 09: Curtis Millender gets his hands wrapped backstage during the UFC Fight Night event at Intrust Bank Arena on March 9, 2019 in the Wichita, Kansas. (Photo by Mike Roach/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

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UFC welterweight Curtis Millender plans to ‘re-implement the fear’ in his UFC 236 comeback bout against Belal Muhammad.

There’s a famous saying amongst fighters that you never lose, you just learn and Curtis Millender learned an important lesson his last go-round.

“I gotta stop giving these guys chances,” Millender told FanSided. “I have to stop giving them chances at the takedown, the goal now is to re-implement the fear. I gotta let the whole division know that they have to be nervous. They have to be scared when they fight me. It’s not going to be easy like that again.”

Millender is looking to bounce back from a first-round submission loss to Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos just last month when he heads right back into the Octagon to face Belal Muhammad at UFC 236 on April 13.

“He’s tough, he’s a grinder,” Millender said of his future opponent. “But that’s the kind of guys I like to fight. I like the guys that are going to be in my face and keep moving forward. That’s basically just throwing a fastball straight down the plate. I’m going to knock it out of the park.”

Millender is lucky, in the world of MMA fighters can sometimes wait months before booking a new fight but he’s stepping in again quickly.

“We reached out,” he said. “We let [UFC matchmaker] Sean Shelby know that we were healthy and we weren’t hurt or anything. We just happened to ride him on a good day. It just happened to be something that was available and a fight we had originally asked for.”

Millender says that the prep work for Muhammad is less about his opponent and more about himself.

“I don’t really need to change anything,” he said. “I just have to continue to work on the things I do well. I have to be confident in my abilities and then I can go show it off in the Octagon.”

He’ll step in to face Muhammad on the UFC Fight Pass featured bout and made a bold prediction for what would be his comeback performance.

“Second round he’s done. Done. He’s knocked out in the second round, TKO or KO. Done.”

UFC 236 takes place on Saturday, April 13, 2019, live from the State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Georgia. Follow along with FanSided MMA, who will be cageside, for all your live results and highlights throughout the week.