UFC Veteran Jairzinho Rozenstruik Gets Main Event Spot at Dirty Boxing 2

Jairzinho Rozenstruik has booked his first combat sports appearance since parting ways with the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

The heavyweight veteran will headline Dirty Boxing 2 in Miami on June 14 opposite Devon Schwan. DBX utilizes four-ounce gloves and three-minute rounds with elbows and “conditional ground-and-pound” allowed as part of the promotion’s rule set. The promotion recently announced the full lineup for its upcoming event.

DBX 2 will include a number of familiar faces on the card — many with UFC experience — including Alex Caceres, Phil Hawes, Francisco Trinaldo, Jessica-Rose Clark and Alex Nicholson, among others. The card takes place at The Hanger and streams for free on the DBX YouTube channel. Prelims begin at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, while the main card kicks off at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT.

Rozenstruik last appeared at UFC Saudi Arabia — also known as UFC Fight Night 250 — on Feb. 1, when he dropped a forgettable unanimous decision to Sergei Pavlovich. The Las Vegas-based promotion elected to release “Bigi Boy” after that performance, despite his 9-6 overall record in the Octagon. The 37-year-old Suriname native owns notable wins over the likes of Alistair Overeem, Junior dos Santos, Andrei Arlovski and Tai Tuivasa, among others.

Schwan, meanwhile, only has one documented MMA bout: a first-round TKO loss to Brandon Ropati in 2011. More recently, he has experience competing in both BKFC and Power Slap.

DBX 2 Main Card
Jairzinho Rozenstruik vs. Devon Schwan
Alex Caceres vs. Saidyokub Kakhramonov
Alex Nicholson vs. Rob Perez
Jessica-Rose Clark vs. Marilia Moraias
Phil Hawes vs. Sasha Palatnikov
Preliminary Card
Francisco Trinaldo vs. EC Moon
Solomon Renfro vs. Peter Stanonik
Luis Saldana vs. Martin Justiz
Boston Salmon vs. Lamar Brown
Early Prelims
Victor Cardoso vs. Raphael Torres
Jose Malespin vs. Gabriel Stankunas