Ivan OrekhovSports correspondentAll materialsIf you didn't want to get up early for the 275th numbered UFC tournament in Singapore, then we have bad news for you. It was stunning! The first UFC champion from the Czech Republic The application for the title of «Fight of the Year», no options. On the eve of the fight between the 42-year-old champion Glover Teixeira and the crazy Czech Jiri Prochazka (he is 13 years younger), not a single fan would bet money on the fact that the fight would take all 25 minutes. The belt holder is one of the best in the league in submission/choking; the Czech has two hard knockouts in two fights in the UFC. But the bet could go. 24 minutes and 30 seconds experience and youth divided the octagon, crippling each other and coming close to another early victory… But Jiri did not give up, Glover did not want to switch off. The climax came at the last minute. The crippled Prochazka, who defended horribly on the ground and made countless offensive mistakes, invested in the final punches and strangled the shocked MMA veteran. The emotional comeback was the highlight of the evening — it seems that if the fight had reached the end, Teixeira would have taken the victory by decision. The drama is over, the light heavyweight division meets a new champion. Infused with the «Book of Five Rings» (a famous samurai treatise), the Czech soared to the top of the UFC in two years. Three fights with Jiri, three kills. Next, the spectacular knockout will meet with former champion from Poland Jan Blachowicz and/or the winner of the candidate fight between our Magomed Ankalaev and American Anthony Smith. Who will be the first to encroach on Prochazka's belt is up to Dana White. The hardest evening at No. 1On the eve of the seventh (!) title defense Valentina Shevchenko, many predicted Poole a difficult trip to Singapore. And so it happened — the verdict «win by split decision» speaks for itself. Brazilian Tayla Santos was close to a great upset, but she lacked experience on the ground. Even when transferring Valya and taking the neck, the challenger conceded more in the position from above than attacked herself. The ending of the fight, where Santos could even more impress the judges, the Brazilian failed. She frankly survived due to serious injuries on her face: Tayla spent the last ten minutes with her right eye completely closed. Hike for the second belt. Now this scenario looks the most logical for the dominant champion from Kyrgyzstan. A classic of women's MMA… otherwise, the confrontation between two former champions in the minimum weight, the Chinese Weili Zhang and the Polish Joanna Jedrzejczyk cannot be called! The fight that the girls threw in March 2020 is still in front of the eyes of the fans. Automatic bursts of blows, incessant exchanges and a terrible hematoma on Joanna's face became a big story, which, given the split decision in the first fight, needed to be continued. And the fans got their revenge. The revenge is amazing, but it took place according to a completely different scenario. In the case of the second chapter of the dilogy, there was not even a hint of equal opposition: Jendrzejczyk, who had not fought since that very felling, survived the Chinese nightmare.
