A lot was at stake when the UFC announced Thiago Santos vs. Glover Teixeira as the main event of UFC Vegas 13 on Nov. 7, but things have changed over the past few days.
When Santos-Teixeira was first booked, it was expected the five-round match could determine who is next in line for the light heavyweight championship. But UFC President Dana White recently recently announced that Jan Blachowicz’s first title defense will instead be against 185-pound champion Israel Adesanya in 2021.
Teixeira hoped to get a second crack at the belt with a win over “Marreta,” which would be his fifth in a row after defeating the likes of Anthony Smith, Nikita Krylov and Ion Cutelaba.