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UFC action takes center stage at Etihad Arena on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi on Saturday as two title fights headline a stacked UFC 267 card.
In the main event, light heavyweight champion Jan Blachowicz (28-8) will face 42-year-old Glover Teixeira (32-7) and the two fighters will enter the Octagon with a combined 75 fights on their professional records. Blachowicz is a -300 favorite at BetMGM to retain the title. Teixeira is a +240 underdog.
Teixeira began his MMA career in June 2002 and made his UFC debut nearly 10 years later in May 2012 holding a 17-2 record. His winning ways continued until a unanimous decision loss at UFC 172 in his first attempt to win the title against then-light heavyweight champion Jon Jones. Since that loss in April 2014, the Brazilian is 10-4 and is riding a five-fight winning streak heading into his matchup versus Blachowicz.
Blachowicz has been fighting professionally since February 2007 and debuted in the UFC in October 2014. It wasn’t until Jones vacated the light heavyweight belt in August 2020 that Blachowicz was given a shot at the title and one month later became Poland’s first male UFC champion with a TKO win over Dominick Reyes at UFC 253.
The co-main event features an interim title fight for the bantamweight belt between former champion Petr Yan and Cory Sandhagen. Yan (15-2) lost the belt in his last bout against Aljamain Sterling after being disqualified for landing an egregious illegal knee that forced the fight to be stopped after Sterling was unable to continue. Sandhagen (14-3) is also coming off a loss to former champion T.J. Dillashaw, but it was a close fight that could have gone either way. Sandhagen enters his first title shot as a +185 underdog with Yan at -225 at BetMGM.
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UFC 267 live blog
UFC 267 main card (Live now on ESPN+)
Light heavyweight: Jan Błachowicz vs. Glover Teixeira
Bantamweight: Petr Yan vs. Cory Sandhagen
Lightweight: Islam Makhachev def. Dan Hooker via submission (kimura) at 2:25 of R1
Heavyweight: Alexander Volkov def. Marcin Tybura via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
Welterweight: Khamzat Chimaev def. Li Jingliang via submission (rear naked) at 3:16 of R1:
Light heavyweight: Magomed Ankalaev def. Volkan Oezdemir via unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28)
UFC 267 preliminary card full results
Strawweight: Amanda Ribas def. Virna Jandiroba via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Featherweight: Zubaira Tukhugov def. Ricardo Ramos via unanimous decision (29-28, 29-28, 29-28)
Middleweight: Albert Duraev def. Roman Kopylov via unanimous decision (30-27, 29-27, 29-27)
Welterweight: Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos def. Benoît St. Denis via unanimous decision (29-26, 29-26, 29-26)
Light heavyweight: Michał Oleksiejczuk def. Shamil Gamzatov via TKO at 3:31 of R1:
Featherweight: Lerone Murphy def. Makwan Amirkhani via KO at 0:14 of R2:
Middleweight: Andre Petroski def. Hu Yaozong via submission (arm triangle) at 4:46 of R3:
Flyweight: Tagir Ulanbekov def. Allan Nascimento via split decision (29-28, 29-28, 28-29)