{"id":379953,"date":"2025-12-31T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379953\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T19:00:10","slug":"derrick-lewis-demands-investigation-into-ufc-324-underdog-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/379953\/","title":{"rendered":"Derrick Lewis demands investigation into UFC 324 underdog odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Derrick Lewis is fighting Waldo Cortes Acosta as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/406095\/ufc-324-fight-card-start-time-date-location-gaethje-vs-pimblett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming UFC 324 event<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/paramountplus.qflm.net\/c\/482924\/175360\/3065?subId1=SBNation&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paramountplus.com%2Frecommended%2Fnews%2F1010954%2Fufc-paramount-plus-streaming-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount+<\/a>, scheduled for Sat., Jan. 24, 2025 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/5\/29\/24439321\/ufc-nashville-odds-derrick-lewis-significant-underdog-against-next-gen-knockout-artist-mma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Once again<\/a>, \u201cBlack Beast\u201d has opened as the betting underdog, sitting at +240 on Draft Kings against -300 for \u201cSalsa Boy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cI\u2019ve said it before, but it needs to be investigated why I\u2019m the underdog against these types of guys,\u201d Lewis told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/news\/a-different-derrick-lewis-ufc-324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC.com<\/a>. \u201cI want to go on a winning streak. Before I started going on this winning streak, I said, \u2018I\u2019m not losing no more.\u2019 I put it in my mind already that none of these guys can mess with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Lewis turns 41 in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWikipedia or LinkedIn told me I\u2019m 40 now \u2014 when they told me, I couldn\u2019t believe it, I don\u2019t feel it,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cWhen I was in my 20s and they told me, \u2018Such-And-Such is 40,\u2019 I was like, \u2018Damn! They \u2018bout to die; they old,\u2019 but I feel completely different about 40 now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">To see who else is fighting at UFC 324 click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-fight-cards\/406095\/ufc-324-fight-card-start-time-date-location-gaethje-vs-pimblett\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derrick Lewis is fighting Waldo Cortes Acosta as part of the upcoming UFC 324 event on Paramount+, scheduled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,139445,702,17056,4454],"class_list":["post-379953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-odds","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}