A heavyweight showdown between Jairzinho
Rozenstruik and Jailton
Almeida is the new main event for
UFC Fight Night on May 13.

Previously, a light heavyweight tilt pitting Anthony
Smith against Johnny
Walker had been slated as the card’s headliner, but the
promotion on Tuesday announced Rozenstruik vs. Almeida as the
evening’s featured bout. Additionally, Smith informed
MMAFighting.com that he was told his fight was getting moved to
the co-main event.

UFC Fight Night takes place at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte,
North Carollina, and is also expected to include a welterweight
bout between Ian Garry and
Daniel
Rodriguez.

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.





Source link

Jairzinho Rozenstruik, Jailton Almeida Elevated to UFC Fight Night Main Event on May 13