Derrick Lewis is meeting Serghei Spivac in the headliner for the UFC’s latest APEX card this weekend. The heavyweights were due to meet in November, but that main event fell apart on fight day due to what was, at the time, called an ‘undisclosed reason’.
Lewis has now revealed that a COVID-19 infection lead to that last minute fight cancellation. He told the story to Sports Illustrated.
“It was a bummer,” he said. “I wanted to fight. I felt like I trained as hard as I could, but I ended up getting COVID.