Derrick Lewis makes history following KO win, breaks heavyweight KO record

Derrick Lewis stopped Aleksei Oleinik with a second-round TKO in the UFC Vegas 6  main event.

The knockout marks his first knockout win over two years. Even with the two-year skid, Derrick Lewis became the heavyweight with the most knockout wins in UFC history.

Twitter reacts to the record-breaking win.

“I owe it to the fans,“ Lewis said at the post-fight press conference. “I owe it to everyone that supports me. I got to really take it more serious than what I have been.”

“I’ve really been eating whatever I want and just been training a lot longer than 30 minutes this camp,” Lewis said. “We’ve just been training a lot more. I’ve still been eating bass [fish], still been eating Popeye’s and stuff like that. Just been training more. For sure, I’ll be a lot quicker, a lot more agile, a lot more aggressive and everything.

“I for sure have to get down 15, 20 pounds to feel comfortable in there, and you really will see something scary out of me for sure.”

UFC heavyweight Curtis Blades calls out Lewis following his win.

“That’d be perfect to fight Curtis next,” Lewis said. “All he’s going to do is try to grab me and hold me and try to win a decision. He’s not going to try to finish me. If he do try to finish me, that’s fine, but I do believe I can take Curtis down and punish him on the ground.

“Yeah, put that on the headline. Make the headlines, go ahead. Type it. That’s headlines right there. I’m going to take Curtis Blaydes down and finish him.”