Arlovski and Struve will fight at UFC 222

UFC officially announced a fight in the heavyweight division between Andrei Arlovski and Stefan Struve. The fight will take place at the UFC 222 tournament, which will be staged on March 3 at T-Mobile arena in Las Vegas.

Because of health problems Struve (28-9) had only three fights for the past two years. In 2016 Stefan scored stoppage victories over Antonio Silva and Daniel Omelyanchuk, but this September he could not extend hiswinning streak, loosing to technician Aleksandr Volkov.

Till November Arlovski (26-15, 1 NC) had a series of five defeats in a row, but in a fight with Junior Albini was able to get the long-awaited victory.