UFC 275 LIVE: Jiri Prochazka wins light heavyweight title from Glover Teixeira plus full results
Re-live round-by-round updates from two title fights and a stacked card in Singapore
Jiri Prochazka submitted Glover Teixeira with fewer than 30 seconds left in the main event of UFC 275, winning the light heavyweight title at the end of an enthralling, turbulent fight on Sunday.
Teixeira entered Singapore’s Indoor Stadium as the second-oldest champion in UFC history at 42 years old, making the first defence of the belt that he won late last year. Prochazka, fighting in the UFC for just the third time, was positioned as the young lion set to take over the pride at 205lbs, although the Czech challenger had collected significant experience outside the UFC before debuting in the promotion in 2020. Prochazka, 29, has held titles in other organisations but can now call himself the best light heavyweight in the world, having won the UFC gold with this rear-naked-choke victory over an aged but game Teixeira.
In the co-main event, Valentina Shevchenko retained her flyweight title with a controversial split-decision win against huge underdog Taila Santos (48-47, 47-48, 49-46), after Zhang Weili knocked out fellow former women’s strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk. Zhang finished the Pole emphatically in Round 2 of their rematch, defeating Jedrzejczyk with a spinning back fist. The pair had previously fought in 2020, with Zhang emerging victorious via split decision. Following Saturday’s rematch, Jedrzejczyk announced her retirement from MMA and left her gloves in the ring – a symbolic gesture for calling time on one’s fighting career.
Re-live UFC 275, below.
UFC 275 LIVE
Next up are Andre Fialho and Jake Matthews in a welterweight match-up.
UFC 275 LIVE
Jack Della Maddalena def. Ramazan Emeev via first-round TKO (punches, 2:32).
UFC 275 LIVE
Della Maddalena vs Emeev – Round 1
Lots of feints from both fighters early on.
Emeev soon lands a takedown and quickly looks for a D’Arce choke... Della Maddalena escapes and the pair stand!
Della Maddalena begins to land punches at will, and Emeev drops to his knees and shells up after a left hook to the liver...
Della Maddalena with a few more punches, and the referee steps in! It’s all over!
UFC 275 LIVE
Jack Della Maddalena and Ramazan Emeev will get the main card started with a welterweight clash.
UFC 275 LIVE
Josh Culibao def. SeungWoo Choi via split decision (28-29, 29-28, 29-28).
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Choi vs Culibao – Round 3
The fighters embrace. Now back to it.
They exchange hard body kicks and low kicks. More fireworks at punching range!
Choi misses with a spinning back fist, then clinches Culibao against the cage wall.
Culibao reverses the position at once, before the pair hit the mat.
Choi is able to take the back with 90 seconds left on the clock... he goes for a rear naked choke! Culibao slips out of the hold twice, and the final buzzer sounds!
What a contest.
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Choi vs Culibao – Round 2
Culibao switches stances back and forth. A right overhand busts open Choi’s bottom lip.
Choi is sent down again! It’s a heavy knockdown, but somehow he manages to gather his senses at once to continue...
Choi is even throwing head kicks – remarkable. He kicks low, too.
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Choi vs Culibao – Round 1
Culibao presses forward. He grazes Choi with a head kick, before the featerweights trade stern punches at the same time...
Choi seemed to come off worse in that exchange... and he’s on the wrong end of three brutal left hooks in a matter of moments!
Down he goes... back up... down... back up... He somehow manages to survive, then nails Culibao with an elbow and flings a flurry of punches at the Australian while storming forward!
What a round!!!
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