UFC heavyweight Derrick Lewis surprised nearly everyone when he suddenly retired after a TKO loss to Mark Hunt earlier month in New Zealand. After all, he had been on a six-fight winning streak before the Hunt bout and is only 32 years old. Why would he want to bow out of the sport when he had just signed a lucrative contract extension?
Well it turns out that Lewis isn’t actually going to retire. He said it “in the heat of the moment”, because he was suffering from a debilitating back injury and felt like he could barely move during the bout.