{"id":36599,"date":"2026-02-03T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Tai-Tuivasa-Releases-Statement-After-Sixth-Straight-UFC-Defeat-200003"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:55:10","slug":"tai-tuivasa-releases-statement-after-sixth-straight-ufc-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/tai-tuivasa-releases-statement-after-sixth-straight-ufc-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tai Tuivasa Releases Statement After Sixth Straight UFC Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <center><!--PICTURE R--><\/p>\n<div class=\"pointer\">\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/tai-tuivasa-releases-statement-after-sixth-straight-ufc-defeat.jpg\" width=\"640\" class=\"Picture\"\/><\/center>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>Tai<br \/>\nTuivasa came up short against Tallison Teixeira at UFC 325. |<br \/>\nGetty\/UFC<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--\/PICTURE R--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Even after a hiatus that lasted more than a year, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Tai-Tuivasa-133745\">Tai<br \/>\nTuivasa<\/a>\u2019s slump continued at <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/events\/UFC-325-Volkanovski-vs-Lopes-2-110692\"><br \/>\nUFC 325<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The popular Aussie heavyweight struggled to remain upright,<br \/>\ndropping a unanimous decision to <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Tallison-Teixeira-394342\">Tallison<br \/>\nTeixeira<\/a> in a featured bout this past Saturday at Qudos Bank<br \/>\nArena in Sydney. It was Tuivasa\u2019s sixth consecutive defeat within<br \/>\nthe Octagon, a skid that dates back to September 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBam Bam\u201d expressed disappointment in the defeat in a statement<br \/>\nreleased on his Instagram account.<\/p>\n<h2>Hurts the Soul<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThat hurts the soul more than any punches,\u201d Tuivasa wrote. \u201cI<br \/>\ntried I had a great camp looking forward to getting back in camp<br \/>\nwith the boys at Tripl3 MMA so much to work on. Always big love to<br \/>\nmy supporters especially the Aussie fans\/crowd always cheering me<br \/>\non. I\u2019m sorry for falling short again. F\u2014king s\u2014t feeling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy poor boy has watched me get a hiding a few too many times now,<br \/>\nbut just like I always tell him, as long as you give it all you<br \/>\nhave and keep trying that\u2019s all that matters. As long as I\u2019m doing<br \/>\nthis I will always keep trying. Had a great week together taking<br \/>\nhim and showing da fings. Didn\u2019t get the result son, but that is<br \/>\nhow life goes sometimes. I hope I take all the loses for mine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tuivasa, who made his <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/organizations\/Ultimate-Fighting-Championship-2\"><br \/>\nUFC<\/a> debut in 2017, emerged as a fan favorite thanks to both his<br \/>\npenchant for knockout victories and post-fight \u201cshoeys,\u201d where he<br \/>\nguzzles beer from a variety of foot apparel. The 32-year-old won<br \/>\nhis first three Octagon appearances before dropping his next three<br \/>\noutings. However, \u201cBam Bam\u201d rebounded from that slump to win his<br \/>\nnext four, culminating in a second-round knockout of <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Derrick-Lewis-59284\">Derrick<br \/>\nLewis<\/a> at UFC 271 in February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>That would be the high point of Tuivasa\u2019s UFC tenure, however, as<br \/>\nhe has since dropped successive fights to <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Ciryl-Gane-293973\">Ciryl Gane<\/a>,<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Sergei-Pavlovich-184051\">Sergei<br \/>\nPavlovich<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Alexander-Volkov-40951\">Alexander<br \/>\nVolkov<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Marcin-Tybura-86928\">Marcin<br \/>\nTybura<\/a>, <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Jairzinho-Rozenstruik-102803\">Jairzinho<br \/>\nRozenstruik<\/a> and Teixeira. In closing, Tuivasa indicated that he<br \/>\nmight focus more on wrestling for future fights.<\/p>\n[<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Khamzat-Chimaev-280021\">Khamzat<br \/>\nChimaev<\/a>], I\u2019m coming to wrestle brother,\u201d he wrote. Teach me. I<br \/>\nam sick of this cuddle s\u2014t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DURsfndEuVP\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.2\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tai Tuivasa came up short against Tallison Teixeira at UFC 325. | Getty\/UFC Even after a hiatus that lasted more than a year, Tai Tuivasa\u2019s slump continued at UFC 325. The popular Aussie heavyweight struggled to remain upright, dropping a unanimous decision to Tallison Teixeira in a featured bout this past Saturday at Qudos Bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}