‘I Feel Like Crying Watching It Again’- Glover Teixeira On His Fateful Decision to Attempt a Guillotine Choke Against Jiri Prochazka at UFC 275

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Former UFC light heavyweight champion Glover Teixeira spoke to MMA Fighting.com and looked back at his performance at UFC 275. Teixeira was bested in the scrap against Jiri Prochazka and lost his first title defense against Jiri Prochazka.

The fighter out of the Czech Republic submitted Glover Teixeira in the fifth round with just 28 seconds left in the contest. Additionally, Glover Teixeira wasn’t submitted in 41 professional fights and was considered the favorite to submit Jiri Prochazka if the fight went to the canvas.

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Glover Teixeira on his fateful submission attempt against Jiri Prochazka

During the contest against Prochazka, Glover Teixeira jumped on a guillotine choke after having Prochazka hurt on the feet. Looking back at his decision to pull guard on Prochazka, Glover Teixeira expressed a sense of disappointment over his decision to pull jump for a submission instead of pushing for the finish on the feet.

“Instinct, right?” Teixeira said on a special edition of MMA Fighting podcast Trocacao Franca. “He put his head down and his neck fell right into my guillotine. I didn’t go for it, he gave it to me. I could have been more patient, of course. I kind of jumped the gun. But the same way he caught me later — we think that when someone is hurt and tired you’ll catch him with a guillotine and he’ll tap quickly, sometimes he goes out quickly too.”

“I’ve always said this, anyone can submit anyone [in MMA]. You can put Roger Gracie  in there, who has the best jiu-jitsu in the world. If someone knocks him down and he’s hurt, you can get him with a rear-naked choke. You’ll compete in jiu-jitsu with Rodolfo Viera and you won’t catch him, I bet that, but it happens in MMA. And it happened with me.”

“But the guillotine, man — I feel like crying watching it again. F***,” he continued

Several MMA pundits have called into question Glover Teixeira’s decision to pull guard on Prochazka as he could have potentially finished Jiri Prochazka via strikes. However, regardless of his decision-making, Glover Teixeira will have to climb back to a position to contest for a title.