Glover Teixeira got a UFC light heavyweight title shot seven years ago and lost, like most everyone else does, to Jon Jones.
Teixeira defeated Jan Blachowicz via submission at 3:02 of the second round to win the UFC light heavyweight title in the main event of UFC 267 in Abu Dhabi.
The 14 UFC fights between Teixeira’s title loss to Jon Jones at UFC 172 on April 26, 2014, and Saturday, were the most between title shots in the same division in UFC history.
Teixeira took down Blachowicz in the first round and basically kept him there for the duration.
Blachowicz was coming off his first title defense, a unanimous decision win over previously undefeated middleweight champion Israel Adesanya at UFC 259 on March 6.
Teixeira has been a pro MMA fighter since 2002. In 2008, on the cusp of getting a call from the UFC, Teixeira had to leave the United States and go back to his home country of Brazil because he was living in the U.S.
On Saturday, Teixeira said he would be returning to his childhood town of Sobralia, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with the UFC gold.
“All the adversity that he’s faced in his career and here at 42 years old, a few days after his birthday, he wins the title.