Ex-UFC fighter’s domestic violence charges dropped after Pembroke Pines arrest
Former UFC fighter Jairzinho Rozenstruik has been cleared of domestic violence charges after a January altercation with his wife in Pembroke Pines, according to court records.
Prosecutors declined to pursue the charges — a felony for false imprisonment and misdemeanor for battery — on March 6 upon receiving a letter from Rozenstruik’s wife to do so and reverse a no contact order.
She claimed the pair — who share a 4-year-old — had been married for six years with no prior “domestic related issues,” adding that their January spat was “completely out of the norm for either of us.”
“He’s in fact an incredible amazing father and husband,” she wrote. “I’m not in fear of my life, I’m not in any danger at all.”
The Surinamese fighter is famous for having competed in the UFC’s Heavyweight division as “Bigi Boy” and is the current Dirty Boxing heavyweight champion.
Officers from the Pembroke Pines Police Department responded to the couple’s City Center on 7th apartment on Monday, Jan. 19, following a call from 37-year-old Rozenstruik reporting “vague allegations of his wife ... pushing him during an argument,” his arrest report shows.
Police say the couple’s fight started while driving back from a trip to their storage unit and escalated when the ex-MMA fighter allegedly slapped his wife’s hand for ignoring him, causing her to drop her cellphone twice.
The scuffle continued as the pair made several stops across the city — a Bank of America, a gym, PPPD’s East Headquarters and a Marathon gas station — with Rozenstruik reportedly grabbing “her arm to prevent her from leaving the vehicle” several times, police wrote. His wife told investigators she punched him in the head and face in self-defense.
The MMA fighter also bit his wife’s right bicep, reads the report, in response to being called “a nasty beast” after attempting to kiss her. He told police he bit her in self-defense.
Officers noted the woman had a “visible bite mark on her right bicep, redness on both of her forearms and a red scratch/bruise mark under her right eye.”
Though neither wished to prosecute the other, police determined Rozenstruik was the “primary aggressor” and arrested him. He was booked in Broward County Main Jail.
