Midnight Mania! Glover Teixeira reveals he was vomiting after his UFC 275 weight cut, “It’s my fault”

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Glover Teixeira vs. Jiri Prochazka will go down as one of many biggest title fights in UFC historical past. For 5 rounds, every man surged ahead to steal the momentum from the opposite in a brutal brawl that left each males battered. In the end, nonetheless, it was Prochazka who left the cage with the Mild Heavyweight title because of a last-second rear naked choke.

In a struggle that back-and-forth, there are positively plenty of parts to contemplate in what determined the victor. In any case, each males practically stopped the opposite quite a few occasions, so this title struggle particularly was a sport of inched and small particulars. Speaking with Combate, the previous 205-pound kingpin revealed that the load minimize could have performed a task in his defeat. He talked about it briefly within the post-fight interview earlier than humbly acknowledging Prochazka as a substitute, however the particulars are worse than most probably anticipated.

Previous to his five-round warfare, Teixeira grew in poor health and began vomiting.

“Regardless that it was nine-thirty at evening, I minimize the load at 3:00 within the afternoon and stayed till nine-thirty at evening with out consuming water, with out something,” Teixeira defined (by way of SportsKeeda). “After which once I began to get better, I began to vomit, I began to vomit … I felt like vomiting, I couldn’t do the interview after the weigh-in and that obtained in the best way, obtained in the best way within the fifth spherical there. I at all times discuss to my college students, ‘The burden minimize will get in your approach, if it’s a troublesome five-round struggle, it is going to get in your approach’ And it obtained in the best way. I feel that was it … I’ve by no means had a restoration like this.”

The fifth spherical was actually a wierd one. The Brazilian began so properly, badly beautiful his opponent with punches, gaining prime place, and practically ending his foe with an arm triangle. After that submission failed, nonetheless, Teixeira simply appeared totally spent and wound up strangled himself.

Is the load minimize guilty? Teixeira made it clear that a method or one other, Prochazka deserves credit score for dealing with his personal camp and weight minimize in a simpler style.

“The struggle was brutal, I obtained drained, as I informed you, I don’t need to blame my camp, I can do the struggle once more, and I can get drained once more. I need you to reveal this half, I need to take away all duty, as a result of the camp is all the things, if I didn’t lose the load proper, he did higher than me, you already know? If I didn’t lose the load correctly, it was my fault, that’s what I’m speaking about, that I’ve to regulate, so it was completely my fault. I could be blaming it on the load. I’m blaming the load, however I’m taking duty for myself, perceive?”

Teixeira has expressed curiosity in an instantaneous rematch, however Prochazka has additionally drummed up some drama with Jan Blachowicz. It stays to be seen which course the promotion goes subsequent with the Mild Heavyweight title.

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