Derrick Lewis isn’t done fighting after all.
The popular UFC heavyweight announced Monday on The MMA Hour that he has decided against retirement in the aftermath of his UFC Fight Night 110loss to Mark Hunt. Lewis said he hopes to return to the Octagon by late 2017, and that his biggest hurdle at the moment is simply figuring out the severity of the back injury that he says badly hampered him during the Hunt fight.
“We’re just hoping that we don’t have to get surgery, because I thought about it a little bit, and it’s not going to be my last fight,” Lewis said on The MMA Hour. “I’m going to try to get back in there as soon as I can, and we’ll find out Wednesday, see what’s going on and if it’s not too serious. Hopefully I can get back in there before the end of the year.”
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