A version of Derrick Lewis’ celebration from 2018’s UFC 229 has resurfaced.
After scoring a knockout victory over Rodrigo Nascimento in the main event at UFC St. Louis on Saturday, Lewis stripped off his shorts, jogged around the Octagon, swung them around, cheered fans in the crowd, and then…this wild scene. At some point–I took off my shorts. I took the cup and threw it to the crowd.
The reporter who retrieved the cup then asked Dana White to also sign the cup during a press conference.
“Thank you St. Louis for showing me my naked butt tonight,” Lewis said in an interview. Sports according to Yahoo!.
It all started when the heavyweight defeated Nascimento 49 seconds into the third round, scoring his 15th knockout with a series of punches, including several jabs with his right hand after Nascimento fell to the floor. Began.
Ruiz, 39, then took off his shorts, flicked them in Nascimento’s direction, and jogged around the Octagon with his shorts swinging.
He also turned his back to the fans and pulled down the back of his shorts for a second or two, eventually removing the cups while lying on the ground, taking them to the edge of the octagon and throwing them into the crowd.
Saturday night. Screen capture via X/@ufc
night. Screen capture via X/@ufc
In a post-fight interview in the Octagon at Enterprise Center, Ruiz said, “I couldn’t beat anyone against the Brazilian taxi driver,” and later said he felt he was still at the peak of his career. He added that there are. “This is the first time I’ve heard about that person.”
At the subsequent press conference, the reporter who caught the cup said, The cup has “no odor at all” Before I ask you about what happened in St. Louis.
The reporter too I asked White to sign it. –The UFC president laughed and said, “You better not,” before reluctantly adding a few seconds later, “Sure.”
Ruiz had a similar celebration earlier in his career, taking off his shorts before a post-fight interview in October 2018 after his knockout at UFC 229.
“You can’t take everything that seriously,” Lewis told The Post’s Scott Fontana in 2021. “Life is already serious as it is.”
