Teixeira vs Smith

Who won Teixeira vs Smith?

Glover Teixeira beat Anthony Smith by during the main event of UFC Fight Night Jacksonville, on Wednesday 13th May 2020 at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville.

The scorecards were announced as in favor of winner Glover Teixeira.

The fight was scheduled to take place over 5 rounds in the Light Heavyweight division, which meant the weight limit was 205 pounds (14.6 stone or 93 KG).

Teixeira vs Smith stats

Glover Teixeira stepped into the octagon with a record of 30 wins, 7 loses and 0 draws, 17 of those wins coming by the way of knock out and 8 by submission.

Anthony Smith made his way to the cage with a record of 33 wins, 14 loses and 0 draws, with 18 of those wins by knock out and 12 by submission.

The stats suggested Teixeira had a slight advantage in power over Smith, with a 57% knock out percentage over Smith's 55%.

If the fight went to the ground, their records suggested Smith had a slight advantage over Teixeira, with a 36% submission rate over Teixeira's 27%.

Glover Teixeira was the older man by 8 years, at 43 years old.

Smith had a height advantage of 2 inches over Teixeira. Despite this, both fighters had equal reach.

Teixeira was arguably the less experienced fighter, having had 10 fewer fights, and made his debut in 2002, 5 years and 8 months earlier than Smith, whose first professional fight was in 2008. He had fought 15 less professional rounds, 89 to Smith's 104.

Teixeira vs Smith form

Teixeira had beaten 4 of his last 5 opponents, stopping 1 of them, going to the judges 3 times.

In his last fight before this contest, he had lost to Jiri Prochazka at UFC 275 on 11th June 2022 by in the 5th round in their UFC Light Heavyweight championship fight at Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore.

Previous to that, he had defeated Jan Blachowicz at UFC 267 on 30th October 2021 by in the 2nd round in their UFC Light Heavyweight championship fight.

Going into that contest, he had beat Thiago Santos at UFC Vegas 13 on 7th November 2020 by in the 3rd round at UFC APEX, Las Vegas, United States.

Before that, he had won against Anthony Smith at UFC Fight Night Jacksonville on 13th May 2020 by knockout in the 5th round at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, Jacksonville.

He had beat Nikita Krylov at UFC on ESPN+ 16 on 14th September 2019 by split decision in their 3 round contest at Rogers Arena, Vancouver, Canada.

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Teixeira's last 5 fights had come over a period of 4 years and 16 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 9 months and 22 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 18 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 3.6 rounds on average.

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