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Derrick Lewis

This heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn’t matter how hard you train or what.
DERRICK LEWIS

Division Hard heavy Oneself Training
I always had dreamed one day Bruce Buffer’s going to be introducing me. Derrick ‘The Black Beast’ Lewis and I just always pictured him saying it.
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Dreams Introduction Myself Photograph
It’s all the stuff I’ve been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.
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Break Children Doubt Family Life People Prison Struggle
My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
DERRICK LEWIS

Goal Money Myself Sports
You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
DERRICK LEWIS

Food Hungry Yourself
All of my fights, especially all of my UFC fights my whole career, I’ve never been in there without any kind of impingement and pain wrong with my back.
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Career Fight Kind Myself Pain Wrong
A lot of people said I would never make it, and this and that, I’d never be a top 10 fighter, that I’d never fight for a title. Just stuff like that. Achieving all those goals and being the person that I am, this is going against everything everyone said I couldn’t do.
DERRICK LEWIS

Achievement Goal Myself People
I hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.
DERRICK LEWIS

Boredom Fight Frustration Hate Myself
You have 20 fights, you should know what it takes to get yourself ready. If you don’t feel like you’re ready, you let your coach know ‘hey we need to work on a little bit more of this.’
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Limitation Ready Work Yourself
I know Cormier is a wrestler so you really got to get them hips down on him so I’ve been working them hips really good.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Myself Technique Work
Like a lot of people have said, it’s not a bad loss to lose to Mark Hunt, so it’s really like a learning lesson.
DERRICK LEWIS

Learning Lesson Lose People
It’s a job to me, basically. I’m not trying to be the best fighter in the world or nothing like that. I don’t come in trying to think I am the best fighter. I don’t care about none of that. It’s just a job to me.
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Best Care Fight Myself Think Try
I just have a crazy sense of humor.
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Crazy Humor Myself Sense
I’m an optimistic guy.
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Myself Nature Optimistic Personality
I really don’t punch with my left hand anyways.
DERRICK LEWIS

Myself Punch Style Technique
I know just about everything that really goes on with domestic violence.
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