Stunning finish to UFC title fight
Glover Teixeira has finally climbed to the top of the mountain in the UFC, defeating Jan Blachowicz to become the light heavyweight champion.
Glover Teixeira has yet climbed to the apical of the upland successful the UFC, defeating Jan Blachowicz to go the airy heavyweight champion.
The Pole was a short-priced favourite to support his crown, but was stunned successful the 2nd circular via submission astatine the lawsuit successful Abu Dhabi.Glover Teixeira goes for a instrumentality down connected Jan Blachowicz. (Getty)
At 42, Teixeira became the second-oldest antheral to ever assertion a UFC title, aft Randy Couture, who bushed Tim Sylvia for the heavyweight loop successful 2007, aged 43.
Earlier, New Zealand's Dan Hooker, warring for the 2nd clip successful a month, came up abbreviated against Russian Islam Makhachev, who submitted him successful the archetypal round.
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