Good evening, everybody. Or should I say good morning? Hello, everyone. Out there, it is 12.55 East Coast time.

I guess technically makes it the eighth of August now, 2021. My name is Luke Thomas. I am from CBS Sports and Showtime.

I am one half of the morning combat hosting duo Brian Campbell is on vacation today. So I will be guiding you through today's UFC 265 post fight results.

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So just moments ago, oops, just moments ago, UFC 265 ended. It took place at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas. Love Houston, by the way, wonderful place. Food is incredible.

Okay. They said it was sold out, but it did not look even close to sold out. Okay, it was like, you know, decently attended, but it didn't look full.

Different story for a different time. Okay. Let's get to the fights. First up, main event, your new interim UFC heavyweight champion is zero. God.

He was widely expected to win. He was a pretty considerable favorite, just shy of minus 400. We're not an overwhelming favorite, but a decent one, just the same.

He wins as they've listed at TKOV a punches at 411 of the third round. So you had about a minute left in the third before they were going to call or before the round was going to end, I should say.

What's the story of this fight? Well, this was an uphill climb for Derek Lewis, no matter what. I mean, you could look at their styles. You could look at sort of the numbers. And it wasn't hard to tell that Derek Lewis is a guy that's got a couple of big.

Not advantages, I don't know, but big weapons. One is huge power, right? He's a, he's just an absolute tremendous force when he can connect.

And two, he can be perseverant. He can be patient. He can be put in bad spots. And he can find ways out of them. This has been true when guys take him down. He sort of finds ways, especially as his career has advanced at being patient, not panicking and waiting for a moment to explode up off the bottom and then getting out.

Sometimes we'll use trickery, like, you know, even when he was kind of getting teed off, teed off on that third round. Even I was like, oh, is he going to catch gone? Because sometimes what he'll do is he'll kind of, you know, sort of double over. And whether it's for show or not, he'll then throw like a huge shot behind it. Sometimes they land.

So he's got all these ways to, you know, low people into a false sense of security. And then the big power is just a complete game changer.

You didn't really see either of those here. A serial gone is he's going to be tough to beat, folks. He's going to be very, very tough to beat.

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