Shawn Teed expecting 'a very violent fight' in rematch with Chris Daukaus

It's been more than four years since Cage Fury Fighting Championships heavyweight titleholder Shawn Teed handed Chris Daukaus a submission loss, but time doesn't seem to have necessarily healed all wounds.

Teed believes Daukaus hasn't been willing to accept the reality of what happened that night in 2015, and he's anxious to remind his fellow heavyweight how it all went down.

"I'm really going to go in there and put an exclamation point on this because for some reason, he tells people that I got lucky, even though I ripped his arm off," Teed said. "I don't know how you get lucky doing that, but it is what it is. He thinks he's figured something out, obviously, for him to try to fight me, so I hope it's the best Daukaus that's in there so when I go in there and Steve Austin stomp a mudhole in his ass, he has no excuses."

Teed (6-2-1) puts his belt on the line in the rematch with Daukaus (8-3), which takes place at CFFC 82 on March 21 at Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena in Atlantic City, N.J. The night's main card streams live on UFC FIGHT PASS.

For Teed, the first victory took place in his professional debut, so he feels much more seasoned this time around. Four of his six professional wins to date have come by some variation of an armlock, and he's also gotten used to opponents suggesting his wins should be minimized.

"Everybody that I've submitted, ever – and I've submitted a bunch of people – they all say I got lucky," Teed said. "You don't get really lucky if you do the move so many times they start naming it after you. But it is what it is. 

"Everybody says whatever they want to say. If you have to tell somebody they got lucky – it's not like I clipped you with a punch. That, you can say, 'Oh, yeah, he got lucky. I zigged when I should have zagged.'"

Teed claimed the belt back in November with a TKO win over Ben Reiter and now seeks his first defense of the title. Winning the crown was a big moment in his career after falling short in his first bid for the belt back in 2017 when he was stopped by Azunna Anyanwu. It was a long road back to the top for Teed, but one he says helped him improve along the way.

Meanwhile, Daukaus also came up short in his first bid for the CFFC title, but that came just one year ago, and he was granted a second crack at the belt after picking up just one additional win, an August stoppage of Danny Holmes. The difference in their paths back to a title shot certainly isn't lost on Teed.

"I mean, if you look when I fought for the belt the first time, I lost to 'Zu, that was my fourth fight," Teed explained. "Now this will be my 10th fight, so it took me like five fights to get back to fight for the belt. He got knocked out, and then he won one fight and he's fighting for the belt."

Not that Teed needs extra motivation when it comes to defending his title, but it appears he's certainly got it. Sure, he may have proven victorious in the first meeting, but Teed seems to want to prove something this time around, as well.

"I think it's going to be a very violent fight from both sides," Teed said. "His goal is probably to go in there and knock me out. My goal is to go in there and smash him into a mudhole and make him rethink about being a fighter. That's my goal every time I go in there. I think it's just going to be a very violent fight."