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Derrick Lewis joins the UFC Fight Night Post Show to recap his knockout win over Tallison Teixeira. Lewis then makes his pick of Waldo Cortes-Acosta for his next fight inside the Octagon.
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Guess who's with us live now? Derrick
Lewis, the big winner tonight after the
celebration. We were saying here on set,
Derek, that that phone call better be
from the president, and indeed it was.
What What did he say to you?
Oh, it's some things in work right now.
I can't tell you.
Are we talking about maybe the a White
House card appearance for Derek?
It's actually a classifier. He told me
not to tell y'all.
Okay. All right. I hear you. So tell me
this now though. I'm sure the president
will be okay with you telling us who you
indeed want next. Besides your wife, who
do you want next?
That's all I could think about right
now. But but besides her, um the Walter
guy since he called me, I want him
Walter.
His name is the the Domin the Dominican
dude that say he's not black. He
Dominican.
You talk about Walter Walker
who who fought tonight and won by heel
hook.
No. No. Waldo Cortez.
Oh, Waldo Cortez said as well.
Gotcha. Gotcha. You want Waldo. Where's
Waldo? Okay,
Derek. Man, you're usually fun as hell
to watch in your post interviews and and
your celebrations, but this one felt
even a little bit more exciting for you.
Was there like a a chip on your shoulder
because of kind of people writing you
off? They bring in a guy with just one
fight. They put him in the main event
against you. He's an undefeated dude.
Everyone's talking about how good he is
and how dangerous he is. He's talking
he's going to finish you in the first
round. Was there an extra chip on your
shoulder and for this fight?
Um, yes for yes for sure because I can't
believe I was an underdog against a guy
like that. You know, I've been in this
sport for a long time. Even though, you
know, I had a couple of injuries or what
some things that came up lately, but I
still shouldn't have been the underdog.
And plus, they was talking trash all
week.
Yeah. Did you pull out your cheeks? Did
you actually moon the crowd at one
point? There there's a rumor out there.
They didn't they didn't show it on
camera, I don't think.
Well, that's what they wanted and they
paid me for it. Look, they throwing
money at me.
$2.
$2. I would say I'm a $2. You know what,
but can't say it on TV.
What a gentleman.
Derek Allan Joan here. Hey, you said in
the postfight interview that uh you were
happy to get that knockout because uh
they were talking trash all week. Were
they saying things to you? I know you
said they were speaking Portuguese, but
there was Was there bad blood during
fight week?
Um, it was because my coach had got into
with that coach also. Um, yeah, it was
bad blood and I didn't like how the guy
was smiling all in my face also at the
weighins. He was just talking trash.
That's all.
He was a tall guy. You've obviously
knocked out other tall guys before.
Alexander Volkov late in in around 25
years old. It seemed to me like he was
surprised at how fast you could cover
the distance. You kind of got hurt. I
want to ask you about getting hurt, too.
You were you were kind of pressing on
your eye early in the fight. Was that
somewhat gamesmanship or did he punch
you in the eye?
It was it was all gamesmanship.
Oh gosh.
I was just trying to I was trying to get
him to come closer to
He's trying to bait him.
It was a little bit too far for the
first time.
We were all watching that and we thought
the same thing.
Yeah.
He wouldn't have believed you if you
pretended you had a belly egg this time.
So you had to go the eye. This guy he's
a he's a master at just lowering people
to sleep.
Yeah. Hey Derek, it's Michael Kiasa
here. First and foremost, do you still
have my foam roller? I just I always
wonder if my orange phone
Yes, I do actually.
I was thinking about you just before the
fight I needed a foam roller before the
fight. Let's go.
I really was thinking about you.
That's awesome. Now, I got to ask you,
you know, historically, you do so well
against taller fighters. I look at the
Travis Brown fight, I looked at the
Alexander Bulkov fight, and then you're
fighting the tallest opponent you faced
to date or the second tallest opponent
you faced today. Do you like fighting
guys with such a height advantage? Is
there something about those matchups
that you feel like favor your style?
Um, it really don't matter, you know.
Um, I just hate that guy's face. I hated
him. I probably didn't hate no other
point but him. I hated him the most.
Just his smile. I couldn't even really
watch highlights of him cuz I kept just
seeing his smile on his face. I hate
that guy.
Mick, you owe me a shot, man. You owe me
a shot. Yeah,
I have a feeling there's going to be a
couple of shots tonight. So, Waldo
Cortez Acasta is ranked sixth.
So, let's say you get him next.
Unbelievable.
Let's see you get him next.
Unbelievable.
You want a title shot after that? I
mean, would would you like lot of shot
at the new champion sooner rather than
later?
Of course. Of course. I ain't
getting no younger. Of course, I would
like that title shot quick.
When When are we going to see you again?
I mean, it was quick work tonight.
Uh hopefully next month or in two months
or something like that. Hopefully they
they don't put me on the sideline for a
while. I'm going to have to call the
president if they do.
The Black Beast Derrick Lewis with
knockout number 16 tonight. Derek,
thanks so much for joining us. And let's
not get too crazy tonight. Okay.
I'm going try not to, but they for sure
going to throw me out of a bar out here.
For sure.
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