Glover Teixiera puts his light heavyweight title on the line for the first time Saturday in Singapore in the UFC 275 pay-per-view headliner against Jiri Prochazka.
Glover Teixeira didn’t need the UFC light heavyweight championship to be happy. The way he tells it, life over his first four decades turned out pretty great, with family and friends, a successful fight career and a gym of his own in Danbury, Conn.
“I was happy before the belt; I even said that many times,” Teixeira recently told The Post over the phone. “I say that the belt is the cherry on the cake, man. It’s gonna summarize my whole career, my hard work.” Prochazka , 29, wasted little time earning the fight against Teixeira. Two tour de force victories in his first two years over top 205ers Volkan Oezdemir and former two-time title challenger Dominick Reyes did the trick. It’s rare in today’s MMA landscape for a UFC newcomer to rise so fast, but that’s because the Czech challenger already built an impressive résumé before his arrival, something his coaches urged.
UFC light heavyweight champion Glover Teixeira and Jiri Prochazka face off during a UFC photo session at Gardens by the Bay on Tuesday in Singapore.“I have a lot of students right now, a lot of young guys [and] amateur fighters, and I keep telling them, ‘Don’t be [in a] rush. Don’t try to rush to get to UFC,” Teixeira said. “Because I always thought, it doesn’t matter how long it takes to get there, it’s how, am I prepared to stay there.
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