Heavyweight Derrick Lewis addressed the press at the official UFC Vegas 65 media day ahead of his main event matchup with …
well good morning you look incredible
how are you feeling
okay how you doing
I’m good you just feel okay yeah
so what have you been up to these last
four months
um
four months why you say four months did
I do my math wrong did I do my math
wrong how long has it been since my last
fight
uh probably about two months really I
did that bad at math days six hours
yeah it’s some the last one for
sure but yeah but I’ve been okay
went down a mental Journey took some
mushrooms I had to come back on go on a
crazy trip
it had been crazy yeah
can you give us more details about that
crazy trip no we gotta wait to my
special come out next year
awesome so I now that I’m now I’m gonna
second-guess myself because I did the
math wrong but I think that you’re
undefeated in Main Events here is that
correct
I don’t want to think about it I don’t
want to think about it because this year
has not been my year you know so
it’d be good if I could keep the street
going but
you know this year haven’t been my year
and I want to end the year off with a
bang and it’d be great to get a win here
in Vegas you know
why do you think that this year hasn’t
been your year did do you think
something that you know there was a
reason for that or I don’t know you know
I train hard as I could like this year I
trained probably like the most ever
training for both my last both both
fights and it didn’t go my way you know
I did everything the right way and it
still didn’t go my way
um I don’t know I mean I still even
trying even harder for this fight and so
we’ll see how things go Saturday I
believe that I can get the job done even
in the later rounds you know I’m looking
forward to the fourth and the fifth
round and I’m looking forward to a main
event fight this fight
so do you
long that you can kind of show
I kind of hope it has a few seconds
but if it goes far around that’s fine
but I’m ready I’m excited my coaches got
me ready I’m motivated even though you
know it’s really not too much for me to
be motivated for at this this point in
my career but I am motivated and I’m
ready to get in there
um I feel like I still got a lot left in
the tank
and
you know we’ll see how things go
Saturday
what motivates you
what motivates me
um I guess you still say my family
um just being a winner and all the
people that really believe in me
I want to want me to do good and stuff
like that look how unprofessional he is
man thinking all that damn noise
unprofessional
if anybody else been up here you would
have been full all like we’re like four
or five cameras working at the same time
but it’s me but it’s all good do you go
ahead go ahead go ahead finish doing
what you’re doing okay turn around yeah
go ahead
next question before I walk out on y’all
now you got to respect
um I’m just curious what what were your
thoughts when you got the name another
Sergey is it
you know what what went through your
mind what kind of fight do you predict
from him
um I whenever I heard that it was him
and I said okay that’s fine it didn’t
matter I don’t care who they give me you
know I just wanted to fight anyone it
didn’t matter especially after my last
fight I didn’t matter um
who would have been how quick it would
have been I prefer it would have been
quicker than what what I got this week
you know um but I didn’t care but I
think he’s a good opponent
um
what I’ve been seeing on the highlights
he liked the restaurant a lot so that I
like that so because I like the wrestle
too but I never really showed that in my
fight so
we’ll see how it goes Saturday
did something happen to your Instagram I
can’t find it
no I didn’t delete it I’ve just been
banned
people
yes out of band but people been
reporting every video I post I’m keep
telling them he’s okay she’s okay and
they still like reporting making it seem
like they’re dead and stuff like that
the man is okay
yo I missed it
um and I guess one last question I take
the mood down a little bit I apologize
for that but we lost you’re a woman
oh so I expect that women do that
no matter how good things going in a
relationship
they always pull the rabbit out of the
head but go ahead
um well that feels weird to ask it now
um we lost a legend this week and I’m
curious if you could speak on that and
and maybe how Rumble affected your
career or any inspiration you got from
him or or anything they might want to
say oh man it was pretty sad
um because we really the same age me and
him and to see how healthy it was a year
ago to see how he was beginning of the
year so I read a sign just I didn’t know
if it was that serious you know so
all right my condolence go out to him
and his family his family and the
friends and stuff like that like it’s
pretty sad that’s all thank you
hey Derek you said at the moment there’s
not a lot to be moted for in your career
but then you said that you’ve been
training harder for this fight than any
other fight I’m curious why would you
train so hard if you’re still not
motivated to try and get to the top or
something um I believe that I have to
you know
my back is really against the wall now
you know I don’t want to lose street
fights in a row I really don’t even want
to lose one fight and so I already I’ll
take it hard on myself every time I lose
a fight you know I don’t stop thinking
about my last fight until I get a new
fight and so I’m just tired of thinking
about my last fight being some BS you
know the way it ended and so I just want
to come out here this week give it all
that I got
you know I’m almost at the end of my
career and just don’t want to have no
water could have should us whenever
everything y’all said and done see that
last fight which obviously got stopped
in a really weird way is that almost is
that harder to take because you’re like
man you didn’t even let me show you what
I can do or is it easy to take because
you’re like well that’s
whatever no it’s even harder to take
because
I for sure should have won that fight I
believe that I should have won a fight
the game plan that we had had for the
fight that it was should have been an
easy fight for me
it was four months ago by the way she
was right it was four months ago
women are awesome what’s today what
today is it’s July August November
October November god damn hold up
man damn in Colorado man
all them damn good mushrooms but uh hey
okay I’ve never had four months my
apologies I’ve never actually taken
mushrooms would you recommend them no
okay no no um that’s probably headaches
that’s what I heard I don’t I don’t take
mushrooms either but I give you
headaches why you don’t take too many of
them the only reason I’m asking you this
is because you once mentioned him to us
before but what do you make of Elon Musk
buying Twitter
oh I don’t care is it gonna give me
money like I don’t know he might not ban
you like Instagram though right that’s
his whole thing no I don’t I’ve been
hearing and seeing a lot of stuff that’s
been going on with all of that people
getting really using the free speech on
that platform right now and like I don’t
wanna I don’t care about that but he’s
firing a lot of people you know cutting
down a lot
publicly sad yeah it is sad you know are
we still in pandemic right now or what
what are we in I don’t know if we are
anymore I think I think actually well
it’s uh either one yeah
thanks Eric
hey Derek um what do you think of the
first season of House of dragons
oh it’s been pretty good
um I’m still on the third episode
because I watch it at night and I fall
asleep but it was kind of slow at the
beginning but like the third episode was
pretty good yeah but
not so much penises so I’m glad I’m
happy about that so far but I don’t
really like all that
the uncle knocking down his niece I
don’t like all that man it’s like cringy
to me
did you like the original Game of
Thrones yeah I love the original Game of
Thrones
um I love Jon Snow of course everybody
does and the way that start off it was
just crazy to see that the father get
his head cut off and I thought he was
like the main character and that’s one
of the reasons why I fell in love with
the show because it’s unpredictable
what do you think of the last season
everyone seems to either really like it
or despise it yeah I like that I liked
it but it was just crazy that that’s how
the main character and the what the evil
guy had died come on man all the other
stuff he’s been doing mean to me that’s
how you’re gonna die
but yeah it’s all good I like the show
that’s good
um you were once undefeated in Texas
what the hell happened
that’s what I don’t know man I think
somebody out there doing voodoo on me uh
I don’t know maybe it’s the media
there’s something in the air man
something in the air because this is
like new people every time I’m doing
interviews now what’s your name Alex you
knew right you interviewed me before
yeah
yeah I interviewed you when you know you
didn’t interview me before right
you did I think
but you never interviewed me see it’s
new
um yeah you did this guy knew you from
BET where you from
where you from no I’m with Bulls end who
both end oh close enough
yeah yeah do you remember the last time
you spoke to the media you’re like
ripping John about his blue shirt and
stuff like that yeah that’s why you’re
not here today that’s fine
I’m about to say John too
I was Voting against me now but
anyways next question y’all good yeah
one one last one um you fought just a
bit about everybody in the top 15 man
like are you at the point where you’re
gonna start rematching people or are you
gonna fight these up and comers like
like what where’s your mindset it
doesn’t matter that’s fine if I
um try newcomers rematch or whatever it
doesn’t matter I don’t care is there one
person that you would like to get a
rematch
what’s the last guy I fought
Sergey I would like to fight him or I
would like to fight the winner out of
tavasa and
Sergey thanks man
Derek very rarely do you ever have two
losses in a row you talked a little bit
about the mentality side of things did
that take a hit too
your your belief in yourself or the
doubt at any point start to enter or is
that the kind of thing that you just
don’t let that even enter into your head
no I don’t think you have no type of
impact on me whatsoever because now I’ve
been down and out before and also I’ll
look at those fights and uh it’s like
the two of usifier I believe I was
winning the fight and stuff happens and
this last one come on man
like just like oh Izzy was saying we
need to bring Maserati back man what’s
his name Maserati Maserati Maserati is
the same guy we need to bring that back
man for real what did you think about
that Izzy fight did you watch that yeah
I watched it
um I thought he was one in the fight he
was doing good
um it’s like it’s just hard I’m pretty
sure his game plan wasn’t to the back
straight up and Against the Cage I’m
sure that he didn’t want to do that but
it’s completely different whenever you
step inside the Octagon if you want to
do the game plan but sometimes it just
goes straight out of the window
you know and we were talking to your
opponent earlier today you know both you
guys are heavy-handed throwers is this
fight as simple as the first person that
that gets that good solid punch is going
to win or is it that you have to be
prepared that you guys have taken the
shots you’ve taken the damage and
training that you have to expect to be
in there till the end whether it be
three rounds five rounds for sure you
know I learned the hallway you know I
believe that even if you hit a guy it
gets shot he might not go down so you
gotta prepare yourself to go the
distance so that’s what I’ve I’ve been
doing and supposedly the the Rock is in
the building if you could tell him
anything about what you think about his
shoes what would you say about his shoes
come on man you trying to start a fight
already I would love to see you fight
The Rock
yeah
the shoes is good you know I believe I
should be um a partner that should do a
commercial with me how would you how
would you pitch it Sam The Rock pitch
pitch your pitch your uh your idea be
like say jabroni I need to be on a
spokesperson for your shoes you know
I haven’t had a chance to drink your
tequila or whatever but I heard it’s
amazing so you know let me be a part of
the team if not you already know the
answer you then
yeah I love it best of luck on a
Saturday look forward
I think I’ll get a shoot