Off the again of his one-sided UFC on ABC 4 victory towards Jairzinho Rozenstruik simply final month, promotional-perfect heavyweight contender, Jailton Almeida is slated to make his Octagon return on house soil at a UFC Struggle Evening occasion in Brazil on November 4.
As per an preliminary report from MMA Junkie, Jailton Almeida, a product of Dana White’s Contender Collection, is slated to headline a UFC Struggle Evening Sao Paulo billed occasion on November 4. – taking up heavyweight contender, Curtis Blaydes in his second consecutive major occasion tilt underneath the promotion’s banner.
Jailton Almeida continued his promotional-perfect run in April
Almeida, who improved to 19-2 as an expert final month, additionally earned the #9 rank within the official heavyweight pile, taking out the aforenoted common-foe, Rozenstruik in a one-sided opening spherical rear-naked choke win over the Suriname native in Charlotte, North Carolina.
As for Blaydes, the perennial heavyweight contender headlined UFC Vegas 71 in April, seeing his spectacular successful run come to a crashing halt in a dominant first spherical knockout loss towards the surging, Sergei Pavlovich on the UFC Apex facility.
Almeida, a supreme Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu knowledgeable, racked up consecutive win quantity 5 underneath the UFC banner since his promotional debut final 12 months along with his victory over Rozenstruik in Charlotte final month.
Previous to that, the Brazilian had turned in a second spherical floor strikes TKO win towards Shamil Abdurakhimov at UFC 283 in his native Brazil, stopping one other common-opponent in a Rio de Janeiro major card outing.
Initially calling for a battle with Australian knockout artist, Tai Tuivasa off the again of his success towards Rozenstruik in April, it seems the promotion are working towards a UFC homecoming for Jailton Almeida towards Blaydes as a substitute.
17-4(1) as an expert, Blaydes, the present #4 ranked contender had loved a run of three consecutive victories towards Rozenstruik, Chris Daukaus, and Tom Aspinall previous to his knockout flurry loss to Pavlovich simply over a month in the past.
Making his Octagon bow again in April 2016, Blaydes has gone on to safe notable heavyweight wins over Alexander Volkov, former champion, Junior dos Santos, and former championship challengers, Mark Hunt, and Alistair Overeem to call a number of.
