{"id":698712,"date":"2026-05-28T05:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698712\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:47:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:47:13","slug":"former-ufc-champions-glover-teixeira-and-mauricio-shogun-rua-to-face-one-another-in-boxing-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698712\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UFC champions Glover Teixeira and Mauricio \u2018Shogun\u2019 Rua to face one another in boxing match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC light heavyweight champions Glover Teixeira and Mauricio \u2018Shogun\u2019 Rua will compete against one another in a boxing match in Brazil, Spaten Fight Night announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Winning the title at 42 years old made Teixeira the oldest first-time champion in UFC history. He won the undisputed title by defeating Jan B\u0142achowicz via a second-round rear-naked choke at UFC 267. He subsequently lost the championship belt to Ji\u0159\u00ed Proch\u00e1zka via a fifth-round submission at UFC 275 less than a year later.<\/p>\n<p>Maur\u00edcio \u201cShogun\u201d Rua was the UFC Light Heavyweight Champion from May 2010 to March 2011. He won the title at UFC 113 by defeating Lyoto Machida via a first-round knockout. His reign ended when he lost the championship to Jon Jones at UFC 128.<\/p>\n<p>Teixeira, now 46, has not competed in MMA since a January 2023 decision loss to former UFC light heavyweight champion Jamahal Hill. Rua was defeated on that same card by Ihor Potieria.<\/p>\n<p>The fight between the two Brazilians will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Aug. 29.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aioseo-author-bio-compact-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mymmanews_logo_Final.png\" alt=\"author avatar\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tMyMMANews.com &#8211; We cover everything from MMA, BJJ, Bare Knuckle, Wrestling, Boxing, Kickboxing, and Judo<\/p>\n<p>News, Opinions, Videos, Radio Shows, Photos and more.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPost navigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC light heavyweight champions Glover Teixeira and Mauricio \u2018Shogun\u2019 Rua will compete against one another in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-698712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}