Former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Glover Teixeira is getting the itch to compete again. It's been more than a year since the 44-year-old Teixeira retired from MMA, hanging up the gloves on a title fight loss to Jamahal Hill at UFC 283 in Jan.
Glover Teixeira will be watching UFC 300 very closely. All settled into retirement, the former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion will watch his pupil Alex Pereira go to work against an all too familiar foe in Jamahal Hill.
UFC 283 takes place Saturday, Jan. 21 in Rio de Janeiro at Jeunesse Arena. There are fifteen fights on the loaded docket with the light heavyweight and flyweight title's on the line.