Dallas heavyweight fighter Rashad Coulter has been added to the UFC 211 card May 13 at American Airlines Center.

Coulter, 35, is 8-1 and fights out of Deep Ellum's Fortis MMA. He will make his UFC debut against Chase "The Vanilla Gorilla" Sherman, who is 0-2 in the UFC and 9-3 overall.

Sherman recently replaced Jarjis Danho, who suffered an injury.

Coulter replaces Dmitry Poberezhets, who was pulled from the card for an unknown reason.

The opportunity couldn't have come at a better time for Coulter. He was recently laid off from his job in the mortgage industry and he is a single father with two sons.

"It's beyond my dreams," Coulter said. "I couldn't imagine fighting for the world's largest organization on the world's largest card in 2017. I'm at a loss for words."

Said Coulter, who has eight knockout wins: "I'm a patient fighter, explosive but always looking to finish."

Coulter is the fifth fighter under coach Sayif Saud to make it to the UFC.

The rest of the card is as follows:

Heavyweight Stipe Miocic (c) vs. Junior dos Santos

Women's Strawweight Joanna Jędrzejczyk (c) vs. Jéssica Andrade

Welterweight Demian Maia vs. Jorge Masvidal

Featherweight Frankie Edgar vs. Yair Rodríguez

Flyweight Henry Cejudo vs. Sergio Pettis

Preliminary Card (FX)

Lightweight Eddie Alvarez vs. Dustin Poirier

Featherweight Chas Skelly vs. Jason Knight

Middleweight Krzysztof Jotko vs. Dave Branch

Lightweight Marco Polo Reyes vs. James Vick

Preliminary Card (UFC Fight Pass)

Women's Strawweight Jessica Aguilar vs. Cortney Casey

Featherweight Jared Gordon vs. Michel Quinones

Heavyweight Chase Sherman vs. Rashad Coulter

Featherweight Gabriel Benítez vs. Enrique Barzola