Lewis vs Oleinik

Who won Lewis vs Oleinik?

Derrick Lewis beat Aleksei Oleinik by during the main event of UFC Vegas 6, on Saturday 8th August 2020 at UFC APEX in Las Vegas.

The scorecards were announced as in favor of winner Derrick Lewis.

The fight was scheduled to take place over 5 rounds in the Heavyweight division, which meant there was no weight limit.

Lewis vs Oleinik stats

Derrick Lewis stepped into the octagon with a record of 23 wins, 7 loses and 0 draws, 18 of those wins coming by the way of knock out and 1 by submission.

Aleksei Oleinik made his way to the cage with a record of 59 wins, 13 loses and 1 draw, with 8 of those wins by knock out and 46 by submission.

The stats suggested Lewis had a massive power advantage over Oleinik, boasting at 78% knock out percentage over Oleinik's 14%.

If the fight went to the ground, their records suggested Oleinik had a massive advantage over Lewis, boosting at 78% submission rate over Lewis' 4%.

Derrick Lewis was the younger man by 8 years, at 38 years old.

Lewis had a height advantage of 1 inch over Oleinik. Despite this, Oleinik had 1-inch reach advantage.

Lewis was the less experienced professional fighter, having had 43 fewer fights, and made his debut in 2010, 13 year and 4 months later than Oleinik, whose first professional fight was in 1996. He had fought 23 less professional rounds, 86 to Oleinik's 109.

Lewis vs Oleinik form

Lewis had beaten 3 of his last 5 opponents, stopping 1 of them, going to the judges twice.

In his last fight leading up to this contest, he had defeated Aleksei Oleinik at UFC Vegas 6 on 8th August 2020 by knockout in the 2nd round at UFC APEX, Las Vegas, United States.

Previous to that, he had defeated Ilir Latifi at UFC 247 on 8th February 2020 by unanimous decision in their 3 round contest at Toyota Center, Houston.

Going into that contest, he had beat Blagoy Ivanov at UFC 244 on 2nd November 2019 by split decision in their 3 round contest at Madison Square Garden, New York City.

Before that, he had been beaten by Junior dos Santos at UFC on ESPN+ 4 on 9th March 2019 by knockout in the 2nd round at INTRUST Bank Arena, Wichita.

He had lost to Daniel Cormier at UFC 230 on 3rd November 2018 by knockout in the 2nd round in their UFC Heavyweight championship fight at Madison Square Garden, New York City.

Activity check

Lewis' last 5 fights had come over a period of 5 years, 1 month and 5 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 1 year and 7 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 12 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 2.4 rounds on average.

Oleinik's last 4 fights had come over a period of 5 years, 2 months and 23 days, meaning he had been fighting on average every 1 year, 3 months and 22 days. In those fights, he fought a total of 5 rounds, meaning that they had lasted 1.3 rounds on average.

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