Derrick Lewis and Daniel Cormier fought six years in the past, however is there nonetheless dangerous blood to this present day?
That seems to be the case at the very least on Lewis’ facet because the veteran heavyweight solid Cormier in a unfavorable gentle at Wednesday’s media day forward of his battle with Jhonata Diniz at UFC Edmonton this Saturday. Lewis was requested what battle in his prolonged profession he’d need to run again and “DC” was the identify that got here to thoughts.
“In all probability DC,” Cormier stated. “As a result of that’s nonetheless not sitting proper with me, I don’t know. Do individuals actually like DC like that?
“I instructed DC in his face, that man a chunk of shit. He’s a chunk of shit, scumbag. F*ck DC.”
Lewis and Cormier met in the primary occasion of UFC 230 in November 2018, with Cormier defending his heavyweight championship towards “The Black Beast.” Cormier recorded his first and solely profitable heavyweight title protection, submitting Cormier within the second spherical.
When Lewis requested to elaborate on his points with Cormier, he gave a cryptic response, joking a few previous beef over a Popeyes hen sponsorship, however then insulting Cormier once more.
“DC know why,” Lewis stated. “Everybody know why, too, he disrespect that Popeyes hen, however apart from that, he’s a chunk of shit.”
Lewis’ feedback made the rounds on social media, although it stays unclear how severe the usually sardonic fighter supposed to be.
Throughout an episode of The Ariel Helwani Present on Wednesday, Helwani gave Cormier an impromptu name to type out the state of affairs, with the dialog arguably solely elevating extra questions.
“I haven’t seen him for some time, however I used to be fairly onerous on him about retiring as a result of he had misplaced a few fights and I used to be sort of telling the reality and he appeared mad at me, however I haven’t seen him,” Cormier stated. “I’m going to see him this weekend and I’m going to sort of ask him, ‘Yo, are you mad at me?’”
Lewis has seen combined ends in his previous eight fights, with simply three wins throughout that stretch, together with a third-round knockout of Rodrigo Nascimento in his most up-to-date outing this previous Could. In Cormier’s position as an on-air analyst and podcaster, he’s required to provide his sincere opinion on how fighters are performing and he believes he might need stated one thing that rubbed Lewis the unsuitable method.
It’s necessary to notice that Cormier was but to see the clip of Lewis’ feedback himself when discussing the matter with Helwani, so he was basing his response strictly on second-hand accounts. Nonetheless, actual or not, Cormier sees no cause to reignite their former feud.
“It seems like it could be slightly underlying, he could be slightly pissed at me due to the way in which I talked about him,” Cormier stated. “I don’t know what battle it was the place it he didn’t look nice, however then he knocked the final man out and I used to be like, ‘I’m glad he’s again.’ So I don’t know. My opinions go together with their performances and I feel perhaps that’s what it’s, however by way of the rest, Derrick and I don’t actually have many issues that we do collectively outdoors of the Popeyes factor after which our battle.
“However we are able to’t be mad at one another, we already fought. It’s settled.”