Preview: ‘Bigi Boy’ Aims To Sink Sakai

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) will look to separate contender from pretender when heavyweight hurters Jairzinho Rozenstruik and Augusto Sakai go to war for the right to stay alive in the 265-pound title chase. The action takes place atop the UFC Vegas 28 mixed martial arts (MMA) event TONIGHT (Sat., June 5, 2021) inside APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Rozenstruik (11-2), who turned 33 back in March, is looking to rebound from his Ciryl Gane loss at the UFC Vegas 20 event late last year. As for the 30 year-old Sakai (15-2-1), he’s also looking to return to the win column after getting stopped by Alistair Overeem last September.

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