Glance out heavyweights, Jailton Almeida is coming. The Brazilian grappling specialist excelled in his first UFC Combat Evening major tournament, filing Jairzinho Rozenstruik in Spherical 1 in their Charlotte headliner on Saturday.

“When I come down with the pressure, no one can get me,” Almeida stated via an interpreter post-fight.

Almeida described the battle as grappler vs. striker in a pre-fight interview with CBS Sports activities. This is precisely the way it performed out. Almeida scored a double leg takedown early in Spherical 1, connect the mount and punched away at his foe. The moves pressured Rozenstruik to show his again, presenting Almeida with a rear-naked choke for the end.

Almeida is sewing in combination a heavyweight resume harking back to Khamzat Chimaev at welterweight and middleweight. Almeida has absorbed simply two moves in 5 UFC fights. In a similar fashion, Chimaev absorbed one lone collision in his first 4 UFC victories. Almeida’s 5 consecutive finishes are the second-highest amongst energetic UFC opponents, in the back of best fellow heavyweight Sergei Pavlovich. Almeida must be expecting to go into the UFC’s authentic heavyweight Govern 10 later dispatching Rozenstruik (Refuse. 9).

Taking a look forward, Almeida steered a battle towards Tai Tuivasa then this week, perhaps in Abu Dhabi or Brazil.