{"id":95516,"date":"2025-08-25T20:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/95516\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T20:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T20:53:07","slug":"dbx-3-gets-new-main-event-ufc-vet-bryan-battle-draws-first-opponent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/95516\/","title":{"rendered":"DBX 3 gets new main event; UFC vet Bryan Battle draws first opponent"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dirty Boxing Championship (DBX) is getting a new main event for the upcoming DBX 3 fight card (see it here<\/a>) on Fri., Aug. 29, 2025 inside The Hangar at Regatta Harbour in Miami, Florida.<\/p>\n

The good news, is that former UFC heavyweight power puncher, Jairzinho Rozenstruik (15-6), is still scheduled to throw hands atop the \u201cSunshine State\u201d lineup. Replacing Rob \u201cThe Wolf\u201d Perez<\/a> in the \u201cBigi Boy\u201d headliner is PFL and Bellator MMA veteran, Rakim Cleveland.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Boogeyman\u201d (23-18-1, 1 NC) has dropped three straight and four of his last five.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the card, UFC castaway Bryan Battle, who was summarily expelled<\/a> after missing weight for the second straight time, returns to action<\/a> opposite regional journeyman Derik Freitas (8-9); who like Cleveland, can\u2019t seem to buy a win these days.<\/p>\n

The Brazilian has coughed up seven of his last eight.<\/p>\n

Dirty Boxing, straight from (what\u2019s left of) the mind of Mike Perry<\/a>, is not quite MMA but not quite boxing, either. The hybrid rules (available here<\/a>) prioritize action by eliminating grappling or submissions, an incentive for jaded MMA fighters too lazy to work on their ground game.<\/p>\n

Also getting busy at DBX 3 is former UFC wild man Hector Lombard, booked for a main card battle against fellow forty-something MMA veteran James Cannon (9-10). \u201cThe Loose\u201d is another warm body with a losing record and double-digit losses; but hey, it\u2019s nice to see these guys getting paydays to feed their families.<\/p>\n

For the rest of the DBX fight card and YouTube lineup click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dirty Boxing Championship (DBX) is getting a new main event for the upcoming DBX 3 fight card (see…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,43957,786,40762,785,85,1396],"class_list":["post-95516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}