Jiri Prochazka and Glover Teixeira put on a very entertaining display during their light heavyweight title fight at UFC 275 last week. The finish was a surprising one as the Czech fighter was able to snap up a submission in the last round.
There was a lot going on in Jiri Prochazka's mind as the fight was nearing its end. Glover Teixeira was withstanding the damage and appeared to be the man that would walk away the champion after UFC 275.
“I knew that it was like 50-50, and I realized that I had to do something more to end [Teixeira], but my left hand was literally broken,” Prochazka said Wednesday on The MMA Hour. “And I [didn’t know] how to end him in the stand-up, there was no way because he was so tough, and every time when I when I tried to short the distance, he tried to wrestle me into the ground. So for the last round, before the last round, I just said, ‘Whatever gives me some opportunity to end him, I will use it. It doesn’t doesn’t matter which one.’
“In the end, there was a rear-naked choke, and so I used that.”
The fifth round was a very tough one for Jiri Prochazka and he had to dig deep in order to survive. Glover Teixeira was starting to get tired as the main event of UFC 275 was coming to an end.
“That was a little bit of a hard moment,” Prochazka said of his struggles in the fifth round. “I tried to just keep going, keep going, keep going, and keep going, and something will come, something would come. I believed in that. I believed in that and then it came.
“I felt that [it was deflating for Teixeira when I escaped], and I tried to do that like that, to be in the dominant position. Those last seconds, I gave in there everything.”
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