Jairzinho
Rozenstruik and Marcin
Tybura will lock horns in a heavyweight matchup at the Ultimate
Fighting Championship’s Feb. 26 card.
The booking was first reported
by MMA journalist Marcel Dorff. UFC Fight Night takes place at the
UFC Apex in Las Vegas and is headlined by a lightweight showdown
between Beneil
Dariush and Islam
Makhachev.
Rozenstruik is coming off a rocky 2021 in which he lost two of his
three Octagon appearances, dropping unanimous verdicts to current
interim king Ciryl Gane
and top contender Curtis
Blaydes. In between, he scored a first-round TKO of Augusto
Sakai in the UFC Fight Night 189 headliner. “Bigi Boy” is 6-3
in UFC competition overall, with other notable knockouts of
Junior
dos Santos, Alistair
Overeem and Andrei
Arlovski to his credit.
Tybura, meanwhile, saw a five-bout winning streak come to an end at
UFC 267, where he dropped a three-round verdict to Alexander
Volkov this past October. Tybura’s resurgence came on the heels
of a stretch where he lost four of five Octagon appearances from
November 2017 to September 2019. His record includes wins over the
likes of Walt Harris,
Greg
Hardy, Ben
Rothwell, Stefan
Struve and Arlovski.