{"id":143130,"date":"2025-05-30T04:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T04:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143130\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T04:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T04:00:18","slug":"swing-rounds-can-derrick-lewis-deliver-another-big-knockout-on-the-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/143130\/","title":{"rendered":"Swing Rounds: Can Derrick Lewis deliver another big knockout on the golf course?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"85f7UY\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/939\/derrick-lewis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Derrick Lewis<\/a> is the UFC\u2019s knockout king, one half of the main event of the UFC\u2019s return to Nashville in July \u2014 and now he\u2019s taking on the challenge of competitive golfer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"uZ2Jt2\">On the second episode of Swing Rounds, \u201cThe Black Beast\u201d joins MMA Fighting\u2019s Mike Heck at Kingwood Country Club\u2019s Island Course, located just outside of Lewis\u2019 home city of Houston, as they play a nine-hole, stroke play match on a beautiful afternoon for golf. Ahead of his main event bout at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fight-card\/1532\/ufc-nashville-lewis-vs-teixeira\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFC Nashville<\/a> on July 12, Lewis swings the sticks on the legendary Texas golf course and also discusses his golf skills, his favorite fight and knockout of his career, not being able to compete at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fight-card\/1480\/ufc-edmonton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UFC Edmonton<\/a> in November, facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/fighter\/6681\/tallison-teixeira\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tallison Teixeira<\/a> on the summer Fight Night card, and much more.<\/p>\n<p id=\"IRP6fG\">Additionally, check out how the pairing takes on the Island Course\u2019s iconic 18th hole \u2014 which Golf Digest recognizes as \u201cGolf\u2019s Toughest Finishing Hole,\u201d and Dallas Morning News annually ranks as one of the state\u2019s 18 toughest golf holes.<\/p>\n<p id=\"6OULeP\">Can Lewis deliver a knockout in this one-on-one matchup? Find out on the return of MMA Fighting\u2019s Swing Rounds in the video above. And a special thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.invitedclubs.com\/clubs\/the-clubs-of-kingwood\/golf\/island-course\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Clubs of Kingwood<\/a> for allowing us to film our round on this incredible golf course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derrick Lewis is the UFC\u2019s knockout king, one half of the main event of the UFC\u2019s return to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[61835,13236,5771,61836,61834,61832,10516,163,2826,10190,1501,61833,5705,254,61831,79,61830,5598,5706,12137,16,15,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-143130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-another","9":"tag-big","10":"tag-can","11":"tag-course","12":"tag-deliver","13":"tag-derrick","14":"tag-fighting","15":"tag-front-page","16":"tag-golf","17":"tag-knockout","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-lewis","20":"tag-mma","21":"tag-on","22":"tag-rounds","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-swing","25":"tag-the","26":"tag-ufc","27":"tag-ufc-news","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-videos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114594790166648951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}