Jan Blachowicz on ‘Horrible’ Performance at UFC 267: ‘I Feel Like S—t and That’s It’

Jan Blachowicz was pretty succinct in summing up his performance against Glover Teixeira in the UFC 267 headliner.

The Polish veteran struggled to remain upright to showcase his knockout power, as Teixera took him down with ease in the opening stanza of their light heayweight tilte bout. Blachowicz didn’t panic despite being on his back for much of Round 1. However, it wasn’t long before he was grounded again in the second frame after being stunned by a Teixeira left hook. This time, the Brazilian advanced position with ease, transitioned to the back and flattened Blachowicz out for a rear-naked choke submission win.

“Everything was okay,” Blachowicz said. “The first round I think that he would take me down, but anyway I don’t feel bad in this position. I say okay, this round is for him now, the second round I’ll start working, I’ll do my job.

“But he don’t let me do this. He take me down again and submit me. What can I say more? I feel like s— and that’s it.”

Blachowicz claimed the vacant title with a knockout of Dominick Reyes before entering pound-for-pound discussions with a five-round defense against reigning UFC middleweight king Israel Adesanya. The WCA Fight Team member entered Saturday with victories in nine of his last 10 outings and was a considerable favorite against Teixeira.

In defeat, Blachowicz vowed to return to correct the things that went wrong in Abu Dhabi.

“My performance today was horrible,” Blachowicz said. “I don’t know. I wasn’t champion today, he was. He is.

“I don’t know, I need time to think about it, but for sure something was bad. It wasn’t me. I don’t want to explain myself, he beat me, everybody see that. It’s not over, I’m not a quitter, I will not go anywhere, I will come back here for sure. I need to rest for sure, think a little bit, and for sure I will come back. I’m not a quitter, I’m not a coward, I will not quit. You’re gonna see me in the octagon again.”

While Blachowicz would like a chance to face Teixeira again down the road, he acknowledges that he’ll need a couple wins before he’s worthy of a championship rematch.

“We’ll see what happens in the future,” he said “I don’t know. If it will be a chance to take a rematch, of course I would like to take a rematch with [everyone I lost to before]. First of all, now I don’t have chance for rematch, now I need to prove that I have to come back and win a couple of fights.”