There weren’t very many people anticipating a potential FOTY from Glover Teixeira and Jiri Prochazka. Perhaps a spectacular finish from Prochazka for a KOotY, but a knock down, drag ‘em out, back-and-forth brawl? Perhaps brawl isn’t an accurate description given Teixeira did most of his damage on the mat with his ground-and-pound, but back-and-forth was fully accurate. Regardless, the final result — Prochazka submitting Teixeira with 30 seconds left in the fight — was something nobody saw coming.
If Teixeira could have held on, he most likely would have held onto his title that he waited so long to claim.