So severe was the beating that they were collecting Anthony Smith’s teeth off the mat.
The ageless Glover Teixeira continued to defy Father Time, as he disposed of Smith with fifth-round punches in the UFC Fight Night 171 main event on Wednesday at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida. Smith succumbed to an accumulation of damage 64 seconds into Round 5, the unwitting victim in an early contender for “Beatdown of the Year.”
Teixeira steadied himself after a difficult first round in which he absorbed 29 significant strikes to the head and saw “Lionheart” outland him by close to a 3-to-1 margin.