Jamahal Hill put on the performance of a lifetime on Saturday, raising his game multiple levels to dominate Glover Teixeira in the main event of UFC 283 at Jeunesse Arena in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to the UFC’s vacant light heavyweight title.
Hill won by scores of 50-44 on all three judges' scorecards. He opened two massive cuts around each of Teixeira’s eyes and left no doubt about the outcome.
He survived two bouts on the ground, once in the second and again in the fifth, dealing calmly with Teixeira’s fabled jiu-jitsu game.
He fell to the ground in tears when the bout ended and was crying unabashedly as he hugged his coaches even before the scores were read.