The light heavyweight division is suddenly in disarray.
After champion Jiri Prochazka was forced to vacate his belt due to a serious shoulder injury—that may leave him sidelined for as much as a year—contenders Jan Blachowicz and Magomed Ankalaev are now scheduled to fight for the vacant belt at UFC 283. In the wake of that news, however, it has to be wondered what’s happened to the man who was scheduled to take on Prochazka in the first place: former champion Glover Teixeira.
In a conversation on the Super Lutas’ YouTube channel, Teixeira revealed the negotiations he had with the world’s largest MMA promotion that led to him being pulled from the card.