— Derrick Lewis (@Thebeast_ufc)
April 14, 2024
Derrick
Lewis has a different take on the walkoff knockout that wasn’t
for Jalin
Turner at UFC
300.
Turner took on Renato
Carneiro on at UFC 300 on April 13. A sizeable favorite going
into the bout, Turner dropped Moicano with a left hook in the
closing seconds of the opening frame. However, Turner bizarrely
chose to walk away, although referee Herb Dean
hadn’t stopped the fight. “Moicano” was back up on his feet in
seconds and came from behind to finish “The Tarantula” in the
second round.
Lewis, who hadn’t tweeted since February 2022, opted to weigh in on
Turner vs. Moicano after the fight, declaring it “Herb Dean
fault.” While many praised Dean for allowing “Money” the
opportunity to recover, Lewis believes otherwise. Explaining his
comments in a recent interview, “The Black Beast” said that the
fight should have been stopped when Moicano got dropped.
“I was watching the fight and Herb should have stopped the fight.
It was one of the fights that the guy almost got knocked out but
the other guy walked away,” Lewis told Shakiel
Mahjouri Shakiel Mahjouri. “He walked away, then the guy ended
up losing… Herb didn’t stop the fight, he didn’t stop the fight. He
was supposed to stop the fight. Because the guy got rocked and he
was out of it, and the guy recovered because Herb didn’t stop the
fight.”
Lewis is scheduled to headline
UFC on ESPN 56Rodrigo Nascimento on Saturday at the Enterprise
Center in St. Louis, Missouri. The feared knockout artist is 1-4 in
his last five and coming off a lopsided decision loss against
Jailton
Almeida.
