If you live in or around Danbury, Conn., and you see a nearly middle-aged Brazilian man with a grayish beard flying and bald head zooming around on a brand new Harley, it might just be a former UFC light heavyweight champion.
Glover Teixeira has a new ride, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, and it’s all thanks to his protege, Alex Pereira, a collaborated video posted to their Instagram accounts shows.
Pereira surprised Teixeira by planting a Harley in his longtime mentor’s garage. When Teixeira rolled up, Pereira and his sons opened the garage, uncovered the motorcycle, and handed over the keys.
“I’m speechless thank you thank you very happy for the present,” Teixeira wrote in Portuguese. “I think what I always say in the gym and in interviews I think @alexpoatanpereira helped me more than I helped him and I’m always grateful for that, but this gift was from a friend I saw back there a potential to be a champion, and I wanted to be part of that Journey and him being a champion was everything, but when agent expects nothing the universe gives us much more, thank you my friend. Too happy.
“What an amazing gift from Poatan. I think Poatãn helped me more than I helped him. When he came to me, I saw his potential and I told him one day he would be champion and all I wanted was to be part of his journey. His winning was everything for me. But when you don’t expect anything, the universe gives us more than we deserve. Thank you my friend!”
I mean, wow. Look at that grin on Teixeira’s face – and he deserves this happiness. There certainly have been more well known and more talked-about fighters in UFC history, but has there been one more unanimously liked than Teixeira? What a guy.
And Pereira’s selflessness here is next level. This seems like it was a totally out-of-the-blue, “What am I going to do today? How about I do something nice for someone who helped me out?” sort of move. Class all around.
In case there’s any evidence needed to back the old saying that “presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them,” just look at Pereira.
We finally cracked the code and figured out what makes him smile.
