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Mauricio Shogun Rua has addressed long-standing rumors that he told Dana White he would rather be cut from the UFC than face Glover Teixeira back in 2012. Rua clarified that his team made a strategic decision to decline the bout, noting that Teixeira was unranked at the time while Rua himself was a top-5 light heavyweight. "Glover wasn't even ranked at the time, and I was in the top 5 in the UFC. … My team felt it was better not to accept the fight at that moment," Rua said.
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