“I started to vomit”- Glover Teixeira says a bad weight cut made him lose his title against Jiri Prochazka at UFC 275
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Jiri Prochazka and Glover Teixeira headlined UFC 275 this weekend and it turned out to be a massive fight. Teixeira was defending his light heavyweight title for the first time since winning it from Jan Błachowicz. The fight had everything that fans would have expected, it was thrilling, exciting, brutal, and technical as well.
Both the fighters were not in a mood of holding back and didn’t shy away from getting into nasty exchanges. Both took heavy shots and were still standing like rocks. After five rounds of back-and-forth action, many thought the fight would go to the judges. The Czech managed to submit the champion 30 seconds from the last bell.
Glover fought like a true champion, and he proved his worth to everyone in the MMA community. Jiri paid his respect to the former champion and congratulated him on a war of a lifetime. Glover almost finished Jiri in the 5th round, but he transitioned to a guillotine, and Jiri escaped the choke to survive the onslaught.
“It was totally my fault”- Glover Teixeira is taking full responsibility for his actions
Glover accepted the fact that he was tired in the 5th round, and talking to Combate, he revealed how a bad weight cut affected his performance. He said, “Even though it was 9:30 at night, I cut the weight at 3 in the afternoon and stayed until 9:30 at night without drinking water, without anything. And then when I started to recover, I started to vomit, I started to vomit.”
He added, “I felt like vomiting, I couldn’t do the interview after the weigh-in and that got in the way, got in the way in the fifth round there. I always talk to my students, ‘The weight cut will get in your way, if it’s a tough five-round fight, it will get in your way’ And it got in the way. I think that was it, I’ve never had a recovery like this.”
Glover finally concluded by saying, “I didn’t lose the weight properly, it was my fault, that’s what I’m talking about, that I have to adjust, so it was totally my fault. I might be blaming it on the weight. I’m blaming the weight, but I’m taking responsibility for myself, understand?”
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