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Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.

Derrick Lewis

You’ve got to try to find some type of mental edge on your opponent.
DERRICK LEWIS

Edge Finding Opponent Trying Type Yourself
That’s what really gets me going, thinking about my past. I think about all the tough times and bad times I’ve had in my life and I bring all that into the Octagon. That’s only because it’s hard going in there trying to fight someone who didn’t do anything to you.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Life Myself Past Thinking Time
I just really want to put the past behind me, because it makes me angry thinking about it. But it’s also the reason I’ve made it this far in my career. It’s like, built up in me. It’s what I think about when I fight. My childhood.
DERRICK LEWIS

Angry Childhood Fight Myself Past Reason Thinking
If I’m the champion, the whole UFC division should be ashamed of themselves for a guy that had no damn skills being the champion. They should all just go relocate somewhere.
DERRICK LEWIS

Champion Division Location Myself Shame Skills
The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
DERRICK LEWIS

Boxing Dangerous Sports
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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Break Children Doubt Family Life People Prison Struggle
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
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
It’s like I say all the time, it’s the heavyweight division. It doesn’t matter if the guys a black belt or if he’s a world-class boxer. We still have a 50-50 chance.
DERRICK LEWIS

Division heavy Myself Time Weight
I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.
DERRICK LEWIS

Boxing Hit Myself Punch Start
I’m an optimistic guy.
DERRICK LEWIS

Myself Nature Optimistic Personality
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.
DERRICK LEWIS

Dreams Introduction Myself Photograph
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
I hate being in boring fights. It frustrates me.
DERRICK LEWIS

Boredom Fight Frustration Hate Myself
For sure, I would love to fight in Houston.
DERRICK LEWIS

Fight Love Myself
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

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