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.
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Kyung Ho Kang def. Batgerel Danaa via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28).
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Kang vs Danaa – Round 3
The bantamweights throw jabs at the same time; Kang’s is quicker and more accurate.
A fierce body kick from him, too. The South Korean lands a low kick then raises his guard to keep out Danaa’s punches.
Again Kang’s jab is sharper than the Mongolian’s. Kang has really come on as this fight has progressed.
He lands a clubbing right hook to the head of a crouching Danaa, who is getting increasingly desperate.
Danaa has sported swelling on the right side of his face since early in the fight, and he’s now badly bruised on the other side, too.
Danaa goes for a jumping knee well after the final buzzer!
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Kang vs Danaa – Round 2
Kang checks an inside leg kick. He lands an outside low kick of his own, then finds the target with a precise jab!
That stuns Danaa briefly, but Kang misses with a follow-up flying knee.
Danaa lands a front kick to the chest of Kang. Now he jabs to the body, before missing with a right hook as Kang rolls under the strike.
Kang goes for a body lock, but Danaa is able to slip free and deny his opponent the takedown.
Another laser jab connects for Kang, but Danaa fires back with a tidy combination of punches. Again Danaa fends off a body-lock takedown attempt, and he retaliates with a knee to Kang.
Kang appeared to be grounded at the time of that knee... If he was, then that was an illegal strike by Danaa. But the referee dismisses Kang’s appeal...
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Kang vs Danaa – Round 1
The bantamweights trade leg kicks. Lots of circling from Danaa as Kang fights on the front foot.
Danaa starts to put together some punch combinations to push back his opponent.
A heavy jab connects to the ribs connects for Danaa, who then catches Kang’s attention upstairs with a right hand.
Now another – an overhand right! Danaa kicks low. He stays light on his feet, then snaps back Kang’s head with a stiff jab!
Danaa has Kang hurt late in this opening round, but Kang is able to make it to the buzzer despite eating a knee to the head while crouching against the fence!
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Rogerio Bontorin and Manel Kape’s flyweight bout, which was scheduled for the main card this evening, has been cancelled due to a kidney issue that has hospitalised Bontorin, per MMA Fighting.
Andre Fialho vs Jake Matthews may replace that contest on the main card, having originally been scheduled as a prelim bout.
Next up, in any case, is Kyung Ho Kang vs Batgerel Danaa at bantamweight.
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Silvana Gomez Juarez def. Liang Na via first-round knockout (punches, 1:22).
Joselyne Edwards def. Ramona Pascual via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-28, 29-28).
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The prelims are under way!
We’ll have round-by-round updates from here on out! Firstly, though, a recap of the early prelim results...
UFC 275 LIVE
The UFC returns to Singapore this evening for a stacked card that will be topped by two title fights after a rematch of one of the most scintillating clashes in the history of mixed martial arts.
In the main event of UFC 275, Jiri Prochazka challenges Glover Teixeira for the light heavyweight title, which Teixeira won late last year to become the second-oldest champion ever in the UFC. The Brazilian, 42, submitted Jan Blachowicz to claim the belt, which challenger Prochazka will look to take from the jiu-jitsu specialist tonight in just the third fight of the Czech’s UFC run.
In the co-main event, Valentina Shevchenko is out to continue her dominance atop the flyweight division as she defends her title against Taila Santos, who is a significant underdog here despite her strong record. That bout follows a rematch between former strawweight champions Joanna Jedrzejczyk and Zhang Weili, who clashed in one of the greatest women’s fights of all time in 2020. Zhang edged a split decision on that occasion to retain the belt – which she has since lost – but both fighters were seen as winners by fans after producing a contest that has gone down as one of the best the sport has ever seen.
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