UFC VEGAS 6: ‘LEWIS VS. OLEINIK’ is in the books, and Derrick Lewis certainly came out “balls blazing” as he said he would against Aleksei Oleinik. Next thing you know, he’s willingly grappling with Oleinik, aka giving him the literal best path to victory possible. Lewis survived Oleinik’s submission attempts — the “British Bulldog” is what Lewis thought those scarf holds were called — and then was effectively told by his corner to not do that again.
He listened.
A big right hand floored Oleinik and he ate a ton of big punches from “The Black Beast” before Herb Dean intervened to stop it inside of 21 seconds.