he wanted \u201ceasier\u201d opponents after Rua<\/a>, but says \u201dit\u2019s possible\u201d to go against fellow MMA veterans after the type of performance he put on Saturday.<\/p>\n\u201cLet\u2019s keep training and see what\u2019s happening,\u201d Teixeira said. \u201cThree and a half years out, maybe a little ring rust, maybe going too much, but I think now, if I have a fight in the next six months or so, maybe I\u2019ll be better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rua stayed in the fight all eight rounds despite getting hurt multiple times by Teixeira, and the Alex Pereira teammate admits he was surprised by that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know Shogun,\u201d Teixeira said. \u201cYes, I wanted to finish with a knockout, I thought I was gonna finish with a knockout, but I knew Shogun was as tough as can be, man. And the heart, he wouldn\u2019t quit. Incredible. I knew that already, I was ready for that. I knocked him down in the third I think, and I was like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s just gonna be out probably in sixth round,\u2019 but I think I tried too much. I tried too hard. I saw that my hard punch was getting slower, and I paced myself a little bit. But for sure, I knew Shogun was gonna be difficult. But it went my way, so I\u2019m happy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was my goal, to have a good performance,\u201d he continued. \u201cI saw everything. I saw his punches, it wasn\u2019t hurting me or anything. I think he got one punch there that I was like, \u2018Oh shit, still got it,\u2019 but nothing crazy to dizzy me or anything. I was just like, \u2018Be careful,\u2019 you know? But I did good. I trained hard for it. And I\u2019m happy with the performance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAO PAULO \u2014 Glover Teixeira dominated Mauricio \u201cShogun\u201d Rua to win an eight-round boxing decision Saturday night in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,701,82],"class_list":["post-877269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-latest-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877269","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=877269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}