Report: Rozenstruik to fight Sakai in June 5 main event
Heavyweights Jairzinho Rozenstruik and Augusto Sakai will face off in the main event of the UFC Fight Night card on June 5, sources told Guilherme Cruz of MMAFighting.
Sakai was originally slated to fight Shamil Abdurakhimov on May 1.
Rozenstruik, the No. 6-ranked heavyweight, is coming off a unanimous decision loss to Ciryl Gane in the headliner of the Fight Night event on Feb. 27.
Rozenstruik previously earned a TKO win over Junior dos Santos last August after suffering his first career loss at the hands of Francis Ngannou earlier that year.
Sakai suffered a TKO loss to Alistair Overeem in his last fight in September. The No. 9 heavyweight had won his first six fights in the UFC, including a victory on Dana White's Contender Series, prior to the Overeem defeat.
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