Jairzinho
Rozenstruik will lock horns with Jailton
Almeida in a heavyweight bout at an Ultimate Fighting
Championship
event on May 13.
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Both fighters confirmed the booking on social media following an
initial report from
MMAFighting.com. The card is headlined by a light heavyweight
scrap pitting Anthony
Smith against Johnny
Walker. A location and venue for the card have not been
confirmed.
Rozenstruik snapped a two-bout skid in his last outing, when he
knocked out Chris
Daukaus in just 23 seconds at UFC 282 on Dec. 10. “Bigi Boy” is
7-4 during his promotional tenure, with all his victories coming
inside the distance. He owns other notable victories over the likes
of Andrei
Arlovski, Alistair
Overeem, and Junior dos
Santos. Meanwhile, his losses have come to some of the
heavyweight division’s best: Alexander
Volkov, Curtis
Blaydes, Ciryl Gane
and Francis
Ngannou.
Almeida earned a contract on Dana White’s Contender Series as a
light heavyweight before stopping Danilo
Marques in the opening stanza of their 205-pound bout at UFC
Fight Night 200. Since then, however, “Maladhinho” has compiled
three consecutive wins at heavyweight, stopping Parker
Porter, Anton
Turkalj and Shamil
Abdurakhimov inside the distance.