After brutally knocking former champion Luke Rockhold in the former champion’s debut in the light heavyweight division, Jan Blachowicz has once again been given the task of welcoming a former middleweight to 205. This time around, the 36-year-old is set to take on Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu ace Ronaldo ‘Jacare’ Souza. The former Strikeforce champ is, like Rockhold, moving up in weight for the first time in his career.
Scheduled to take on Jacare in hostile territory, at UFC Sao Paulo, Blachowicz told Combate that he intends to make the fight a quick one. He’s predicting another knockout win, and hoping not to find himself on the ground against one of the best jiu-jitsu practitioners in the UFC.