Derrick Lewis' Spectacular KO of Curtis Blaydes

My balls was hot, one was the famous one. I don't remember that one. So how's things, man? Things been crazy. I can only imagine. After that knockout of Curtis Blades, like, whew, I mean, that got a lot of attention. Oh yeah, yeah. And it felt real good to knock him out because he was talking a lot of trash before the fight. Isn't that par for the course, though? Everybody talks shit before the fight. Even whenever I'm doing good, though, he's been talking at least three years now he's been talking mess to me. Really? Yeah. Do you take that shit personally? I do because I'm not in there trying to sell tickets. Don't just come to me and try to sell tickets to talk trash. I take everything personally. Yeah, some guys do just try to sell tickets. And then they'll say it's not personal. When Khabib Nurmagomedov was fucking up Connor, when he was on top of him, pounding on him, going, let's talk now. Let's talk now. Remember that? Yeah, yeah. And he goes, it's just business. It's like, this is not business. No, no. I go into every fight like life or death. And I enter a deep, dark place every time I step inside the Octagon. So it's not business for me. What was interesting is after the fight, I mean, there was just such a spectacular knockout. But after the fight, you were so nonchalant. You were just so relaxed. And you learned, I couldn't get started in there. And everybody's like, what the fuck are you talking about? You couldn't get started. It was one of the most spectacular knockouts in the history of the heavyweight division. And you're like, I couldn't get started. Yeah, so I went back home and got my blood and everything tested. And my T levels was like in the 300s. So I had very low T. You mean testosterone? Yes. You have low testosterone? Yes. That's ridiculous. Yeah. I would never, if I was going to make a bet. It's so like I try to spend all my energy on my wife. So it's kind of hard because if I don't have the energy for her, then she'll think I'm out there messing around and stuff like that. Do they know why your testosterone was low? Maybe overtrained or something? No, I don't. We don't know yet. So I want to go to another doctor that the lady was just telling me about. Oh, wow. That's crazy. So that's why you felt lethargic. Yes. Yes. It was like that all week. So at first I thought it was the jet lag or something like that. But it ended up just being my T levels. That was like one of the most perfectly timed uppercuts I've ever seen. It was perfect. Yeah, we practiced that for the last few months. So that was the game plan when he shoots to catch him coming in? Yes. Either the knee or the uppercut. We knew he was going to be there. We knew he was going to try to play the game, try to stand up for a little bit. Then the way he shoots, he don't really shoot like a real wrestler. He shoots from the hip down and come in like that. He doesn't bend the knee and try to come in. That's interesting. So he hinges. Yes. He goes forward. Yes. Why do you think he does that? I don't know. I don't know. Usually the wrestlers, they drop a knee, then shoot. Yeah. But he just bend down. I guess he was just trying to grab my leg to pick it up or something like that. So how did you get involved in fighting? What was your first experiences? First experience was like, because everyone knew I loved fighting in the streets. Like every weekend at parties and stuff like that. So one of my friends had told me about MMA. I didn't really know anything about MMA at the time. He told me to watch videos. It was like 10 years ago. Did you have any martial arts training at all? No, I don't. I still don't have any martial arts training. That's ridiculous. Of course you do. You're professional martial arts. I'm watching YouTube videos now, so I'm learning some stuff now. Really? Yeah. You're not fucking around? Really? You learn from YouTube videos? I learn from my coach as well, but I watch YouTube videos and stuff like that too. So 10 years ago, you had no martial arts training at all? No martial arts training. And where did you first start training? I just started training at a gym called Silverback MMA. So this was 10 years ago. You just decided to learn. Were you thinking about being a professional? Were you just doing it for fun? They said that back then I thought like 500, 500 was pretty good money. So they were saying that you could get paid $500. There's three rounds or three minutes. I said just three minutes. I didn't think three minutes was a long time until I got in there. It's like damn. Okay. And so we just started training from there though. And I fell in love with it. To me it's almost like street fighting. So it's like yeah, I could do that. But one of the things that's changed about you over the years is your endurance. Your endurance, it came up in a big way. Like you can see in the Gabriel Gonzaga fight, you can see in a lot of your fights. You can put pressure on people now. And you have a lot of high volume. Which in the beginning of your career I think you had a harder time with. Oh yeah. So that's really what we focus on now at Main Street Boxing Gym. It's my conditioning and my endurance and stuff like that. Because we feel like that's the only weakness in my game right now. Yeah, but it's like you're so big. I don't even know if it's a weakness. I think it's just part of being a giant person. But the Travis Brown fight's another example. That was a crazy fast paced fight. But you overwhelmed him. Yeah, yeah. I love that fight too. Before this past fight with Curtis, it was one of my favorites. That week going into the Travis Brown fight, I took some laxatives. Just tried to help me cut some weight. But I took it that Wednesday and you're still lingering around. So it's like he kicked me in my body. But he also broke my ribs. But I also did have to take a shit. So I wasn't lying about that. That was a ridiculous interview though. Yeah, that fight was a heavy duty fight. A lot of bad blood in that fight too, right? And ever since then, whenever I do my... You know how they come in a few days before the commentators try to talk to you. And ever since then I stopped telling the guys what's my game plan and stuff like that. Because I didn't know him and Bryan's stand at the time was friends. And so our game plan was to come in and try to kick his legs because he used to stand real wide. So whenever me and him fought, he didn't stand like that at all. Not one time. So you think Bryan stand went to him and told him? I believe so. Oh, Bryan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's kind of dirty. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So... And he didn't tell you his strategy. No, he didn't. Damn, Bryan stand. So I just believe that was the case. So, Bryan, if you're interested in the game plan, please do check out the other episodes on Spotify. 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