One of the UFC’s most successful heavyweights over the past two years, Derrick Lewis was just hoping for a chance to get back in the win column.
Those hopes were dashed when back issues rendered him barely able to move just hours before he was supposed to step into the Octagon against Fabricio Werdum at UFC 216. The decision was made to pull Lewis from the card, and while Werdum would be granted a replacement opponent in Walt Harris (who Werdum submitted in 65 seconds), Lewis was left to wallow in his hotel room wondering what could have been.