Alexander Volkov vs. Jairzinho Rozenstruik
will headline UFC Fight Night on June 4, per UFC officials. Nos. 7
and 8 in the division, respectively. Early predictions? pic.twitter.com/9KjskxEXQL— Brett Okamoto (@bokamotoESPN)
April 15, 2022
Two Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweights
looking to make a statement will get five rounds to do so at the
beginning of June.
The UFC’s broadcast partner of ESPN
released the news on Friday that Alexander
Volkov (34-10) will be taking on Jairzinho
Rozenstruik (12-3) to headline the upcoming
UFC Fight Night event on June 4. The two heavyweights will like
battle it out at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, although a location is
not yet on the books.
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Volkov has alternated wins and losses in his last four, winning
against Alistair
Overeem and Marcin
Tybura but dropping bouts to Ciryl Gane
and Tom
Aspinall. The Russian celebrates a finish rate of 74% as a pro,
with the majority of his stoppages coming due to strikes. In
addition to Overeem, “Drago” has knocked out the likes of Fabricio
Werdum, Walt Harris
and Denis
Goltsov throughout his storied career.
Not to be outdone by his opponent, Rozenstruik has alternated
victories and defeats across his last six, which also includes a
finish of Overeem and decision setback to Gane. Far less
experienced than Volkov but with a significantly higher knockout
rate, all but one of his wins in his MMA career have ended by due
to strikes. Before turning to MMA in 2012, the Suriname native
carried out a full kickboxing career, with at least 85 appearances
with 76 wins to his name – and 64 of those came by knockout or
TKO.
The June 4 UFC Fight Night event now has its headliner, even if a
destination has yet to be made public. It may go down inside of the
UFC Apex in Las Vegas. Other key matchups on the billing include a
featherweight scrap between Dan Ige and
Movsar
Evloev, a middleweight brawl pitting Joaquin
Buckley against Abusupiyan
Magomedov and a pivotal women’s flyweight affair when Erin
Blanchfield takes on J.J.
Aldrich.