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\nAfter a promising start, Jailton Almeida’s run at heavyweight
\nhas fallen flat. | Getty\/UFC<\/b><\/p>\n
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Jailton After consecutive losses against Rizvan \u201cMaladinho\u201d earned a UFC contract by winning a light heavyweight While Almedia secured noteworthy wins against the likes of Jairzinho After a promising start, Jailton Almeida’s run at heavyweight has fallen flat. | Getty\/UFC Jailton Almeida is done with the heavyweight experiment. After consecutive losses against Rizvan Kuniev and Alexander Volkov, Almeida is planning to return to the light heavyweight division. The information was released by manager Leonardo Pateira during the Brazilian podcast “Connect Cast.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAlmeida<\/a> is done with the heavyweight experiment.<\/p>\n
\nKuniev<\/a> and Alexander
\nVolkov<\/a>, Almeida is planning to return to the light heavyweight
\ndivision. The information was released by manager Leonardo Pateira
\nduring the Brazilian podcast “Connect Cast.\u201d Sherdog subsequently
\ncontacted Pateira, who confirmed the information and added that
\n
\nUFC<\/a> has already been informed of Almeida\u2019s decision.
\n <\/p>\nDiminishing Returns<\/h2>\n
\nfight on
\nDana White’s Contender Series<\/a> in September 2021. He was
\nsuccessful in his Octagon debut at 205 pounds, finishing Danilo
\nMarques<\/a> in the opening stanza at UFC Fight Night 200 in
\nFebruary 2022. After one 220-pound catchweight victory, the
\nBrazilian moved to the heavyweight division, where he has compiled
\na 5-3 record since 2023.<\/p>\n
\nRozenstruik<\/a>, Derrick
\nLewis<\/a> and Serghei
\nSpivac<\/a>, his last two performances left plenty to be desired \u2014
\nboth in the final result and in the overall performance. In his
\nmost recent loss against Kuniev at
\nUFC Fight Night 266<\/a>, Almeida failed on all eight takedown
\nattempts and appeared reluctant to engage in striking exchanges for
\nany significant period of time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"