Teixeira has beaten nobody at the level of Lewis, and the Black Beast has been willing to grapple against average or slightly below average grapplers.

UFC 318 goes down on Saturday from Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. In the main event, Louisiana legend Dustin Poirier will take a second crack at the symbolic BMF title when he faces Max Holloway.

Poirier has twice defeated Holloway, once at featherweight and once at lightweight, and he looks to put a stamp on their series and author a fairy tale ending in his native Louisiana.