Derrick Lewis prolonged his document for essentially the most knockouts in UFC historical past after laying waste to a different younger gun attempting to take his spot after ending Tallison Teixeira within the UFC Nashville principal occasion.
It was a wild struggle for so long as it lasted with Teixeira really throwing a brief punch that ricocheted off the aspect of Lewis’ face and seemingly left him struggling to see out of 1 eye. A cut up second later, Lewis simply stepped into the pocket and began winging pictures and that’s when he blasted Teixeira with a devastating left hand.
Teixeira crashed to the canvas and Lewis simply unloaded a barrage of pictures attempting to get him out of there. Because the assault continued, Texeira used the cage to tug himself up once more and Lewis simply stored hammering him with punches till referee Jason Herzog determined to cease the struggle.
The tip got here simply 35 seconds into the opening spherical.
Afterwards, Lewis really obtained on the cellphone with President Donald Trump as he celebrated his win after which he delivered one other memorable post-fight interview.
“USA on this ho, f*ck what they’re speaking about,” Lewis mentioned after talking to the president.
“They’ve been speaking shit all week. I can’t communicate Portuguese however I do know they had been speaking shit about me. F*ck them. That’s a ho ass transfer proper there. I do know he was harm. I simply knew he been preventing tomato cans his complete profession. I want some extra of them taxi cab drivers from Brazil for my subsequent struggle.”
It was one other blistering efficiency from Lewis, who really got here into the struggle because the underdog however then delivered an emphatic end to cap off the UFC’s return to Nashville.
After all, Lewis’ celebration included taking off his shorts, tossing his athletic cup into the group and motioning like he was going to the lavatory in his opponent’s nook.
When it lastly got here time to truly speak about what comes subsequent, Lewis selected a barely totally different opponent than somebody from the highest 15 within the UFC.
“I’ve been gone for 2 weeks so I would like my spouse subsequent,” Lewis mentioned drawing a roar from the group. “It’s going to be quite a lot of floor and pound.”
Now 3-1 in his previous 4 fights, Lewis stays a menace to only about anyone within the heavyweight division and hit star energy definitely hasn’t diminished judging by the reception he obtained on Saturday night time.
