Glover Teixeira, Jiri Prochazka make weight for UFC 275 mild heavyweight title battle

The primary occasion of the UFC’s first pay-per-view card in southeast Asia is official.

Glover Teixeira and Jiri Prochazka each weighed in efficiently Friday for his or her mild heavyweight title battle, every coming in at 205 kilos. Teixeira will defend his belt in opposition to Prochazka within the UFC 275 headliner Saturday in Singapore.

ESPN has Teixeira ranked because the No. eight pound-for-pound MMA fighter on the earth. At mild heavyweight, Teixeira is ranked No. 1 and Prochazka is No. 4.

Teixeira (33-7) beat Jan Blachowicz to win the UFC mild heavyweight title at UFC 267 this previous October. The Brazil native turned the oldest first-time champion in UFC historical past with the victory. Teixeira, 42, has gained six straight and first challenged for the title, a loss to Jon Jones, again in 2014.

Prochazka (28-3-1) has gained 12 straight, together with 10 in a row through KO/TKO. The Czech Republic native is coming off a second-round spinning again elbow knockout of Dominick Reyes in Could 2021. Prochazka, 29, is the previous mild heavyweight champion of Japan’s Rizin Combating Federation promotion.

Each UFC 275 co-main occasion fighters additionally made weight efficiently Friday. Valentina Shevchenko (124.5 kilos) will defend her UFC girls’s flyweight title in opposition to Taila Santos (125 kilos) on Saturday.

Shevchenko (22-3) is ESPN’s No. 1 pound-for-pound girls’s MMA fighter. The 34-year-old Kyrgyzstan native has gained eight straight and is on the lookout for her seventh title protection. Santos (19-1), a 28-year-old Brazilian, has gained 4 in a row.

In one other key battle on the cardboard, former girls’s strawweight champions Zhang Weili and Joanna Jedrzejczyk efficiently made weight with each coming in at 116 kilos.

The pay-per-view additionally misplaced a battle on Friday, as Rogerio Bontorin was pulled due to medical causes. His battle in opposition to Manel Kape was canceled.