Kevin Lee has a lot of regrets about how the final few months of 2017 played out, both inside and outside the cage.
He’s disappointed with his performance at UFC 216, where he squared off with Tony Ferguson for the interim lightweight title and tapped out to a triangle choke late in the third round, halting his five-fight winning streak and leaving him short of his goal.
A few months later, his long-time coach, Robert Follis, took his own life.
But while the closing stretch of last year proved incredibly challenging, the 26-year-old contender knows that the difficulties he endured during that stretch have made him a better man and a better fighter as he readies for his second main event assignment of 2018.