{"id":865243,"date":"2026-08-20T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/865243\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T17:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:50:19","slug":"glover-teixeira-vs-shogun-rua-boxing-match-not-a-friendly-exhibition-im-going-to-take-his-head-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/865243\/","title":{"rendered":"Glover Teixeira vs. Shogun Rua boxing match NOT a friendly exhibition \u2014 \u2018I\u2019m going to take his head off\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Former UFC light heavyweight champions Glover Teixeira and Mauricio Rua are putting retirement on hold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/446382\/ufc-legends-collide-glover-teixeira-vs-shogun-rua-booked-aug-29-brazil\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">for a Spaten Fight Night 3 boxing match<\/a> on Sat., Aug. 29, 2026 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The bout will be contested under professional boxing rules with 10-ounce gloves featuring eight, two-minute rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">And Teixeira is not treating this as a friendly exhibition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI fought everybody, he fought everybody, we didn\u2019t fight each other and that\u2019s great,\u201d Teixeira told <a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mma\/2026\/08\/20\/glover-teixeira-explains-boxing-match-vs-mauricio-shogun-rua\/91381565007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MMA Junkie<\/a>. \u201cWe retired the same day, here we are. We\u2019re gonna go in there and do some boxing and let it out, man. It\u2019s a fight. We\u2019re training hard, no exhibition. We do 10-ounce gloves, and we\u2019re going to take his head off. I\u2019m going to take his head off. I\u2019m going for that. I don\u2019t know what he wants to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Spaten Fight Night 3, airing live on TV Globo and streaming on Globoplay, will also feature Olympic gold medalists Rafaela Silva and Beatriz Souza in judo action. Silva collides with 2024 Olympic silver medalist Prisca Awiti not long after Souza runs it back with fellow Olympian Raz Hershko.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC light heavyweight champions Glover Teixeira and Mauricio Rua are putting retirement on hold for a Spaten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,36109,49,48,33601,82,702],"class_list":["post-865243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865243","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=865243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}