{"id":378846,"date":"2021-03-15T07:13:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=378846"},"modified":"2021-03-15T07:13:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T14:13:08","slug":"derrick-lewis-reveals-favorite-knockout-of-ufc-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/derrick-lewis-reveals-favorite-knockout-of-ufc-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Derrick Lewis reveals favorite knockout of UFC career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC heavyweight Derrick Lewis revealed that his knockout win over Alexander Volkov was his personal favorite KO of his UFC career so far.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis is coming off of a vicious KO over Curtis Blaydes in February, one that not only put him in line for a potential heavyweight title shot, but one that also tied him with Vitor Belfort for the most knockouts in UFC history at 12.<\/p>\n<p>However, arguably his most famous win came at UFC 229 when he beat the aforementioned Volkov. Lewis was clearly down on the scorecards heading into the final few seconds of the fight, and then out of nowhere, he pulled a buzzer-beater KO out of the bag.<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether or not that was his favorite on a recent appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, Lewis had the following to say.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Derrick Lewis&#039; Most Satisfying KO\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xCNdLBgPJL4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After losing for the better part of 3 rounds and being at a 82 significant strike differential, Derrick Lewis puts Alexander Volkov&#39;s lights out with only 11 seconds left. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UFCVegas6?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UFCVegas6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ANI0knapt2\">pic.twitter.com\/ANI0knapt2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BirksMMA (@BirksMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BirksMMA\/status\/1291720752794927105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p id=\"CZH0zu\">\u201cThat was (my favorite), yeah,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cThe crowd made it real satisfying because of the way they reacted. And seeing the one guy from Guardians of the Galaxy, seeing his reaction made it all worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p id=\"bSjOVg\">\u201cI was telling my coach in my camp. \u2018I\u2019m fighting a Russian guy, it would be cool to have one of those Rocky-type fights. And sure enough, it was a Rocky type fight. So crazy. It ended just like a Rocky movie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy manager at home, he fainted. Lou said he fainted, he couldn\u2019t take it anymore,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cEveryone was so pumped about that, I heard the police were called because my neighbors, some fans, were just going so crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Quotes courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2021\/3\/14\/22330672\/derrick-lewis-shared-his-favorite-knockout-with-joe-rogan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MMA Mania<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lewis is well known for being one of the most honest fighters in the promotion&#8217;s history but he&#8217;s also one of the most daring. While some think he should sit back and wait for his title shot, the man himself has noted that he <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/derrick-lewis-wants-to-stay-active-following-ko-of-curtis-blaydes-i-know-my-window-of-time-is-closing-to-make-money\/\">just wants to stay active<\/a> as he knows his window of opportunity for making money is closing.<\/p>\n<p>What was your favorite Derrick Lewis moment in the UFC?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC heavyweight Derrick Lewis revealed that his knockout win over Alexander Volkov was his personal favorite KO of his UFC career so far. Lewis is coming off of a vicious KO over Curtis Blaydes in February, one that not only put him in line for a potential heavyweight title shot, but one that also tied [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54478,"featured_media":304644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[27345,10239,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Derrick Lewis reveals favorite knockout of UFC career | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UFC heavyweight Derrick Lewis revealed that his knockout win over Alexander Volkov was his personal favorite KO of his UFC career so far.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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