“There’s a couple of other ones, too, but I think those two right there stand out the most. Just because those guys were talking crap before the fight, and it was just sweet to knock them out and have their eyes roll back in their head.”
Lewis has faced a who’s who of the UFC heavyweight division during his career, but now, still ranked inside the top 10, he’s been handed a rather different assignment.
Rather than facing a fellow top 10 contender, Lewis has drawn the name of Tallison Teixeira, a Brazilian prospect and Dana White’s Contender Series graduate who has fought just once in the UFC so far – in a fight that lasted a mere 35 seconds.
Teixeira’s first-round knockout of Arthur Lopes on DWCS, and subsequent 35-second finish of Justin Tafa at UFC 312 have convinced the UFC matchmakers that the Brazilian has what it takes to mix it up with Lewis in Nashville.