Making Glover Teixeira: Urban legend to UFC star

Many fighters arrive in the UFC with a reputation that precedes them. Then there’s Glover Teixeira.Owner of a 17-2 record that included a 15-fight winning streak and knockouts of Ricco Rodriguez, Marvin Eastman, Marcio Cruz and Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou before he stepped foot in the Octagon for the first time in 2012, the Brazilian didn’t just have a reputation. He was an urban legend, the Bigfoot UFC fans had heard about but never saw with their own eyes. And before Teixeira made tha