Derrick Lewis and Daniel Cormier fought six years in the past, however is there nonetheless dangerous blood to at the present time?
That seems to be the case not less than on Lewis’ facet because the veteran heavyweight solid Cormier in a unfavourable mild at Wednesday’s media day forward of his struggle with Jhonata Diniz at UFC Edmonton this Saturday. Lewis was requested what struggle in his prolonged profession he’d need to run again and “DC” was the title that got here to thoughts.
“Most likely 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 about a previous beef over a Popeyes rooster sponsorship, however then insulting Cormier once more.
“DC know why,” Lewis stated. “Everybody know why, too, he disrespect that Popeyes rooster, however aside 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 kind out the scenario, with the dialog arguably solely elevating extra questions.
“I haven’t seen him for some time, however I used to be fairly laborious 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 blended 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 present 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 vital 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 purpose to reignite their former feud.
“It seems like it could be just a little underlying, he could be just a little pissed at me due to the best way I talked about him,” Cormier stated. “I don’t know what struggle 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 struggle.
“However we will’t be mad at one another, we already fought. It’s settled.”
