“I mean, they were, I want to say, they were the caps to his teeth or something,” Johnson recalls. “I didn’t know he had fake teeth before that fight, but it looked f****** horrible on TV.”
Lester would go on to lose the bout and be eliminated from the tournament. To make matters worse, he never fought for a major organization following a loss on the TUF Finale card to Nick Osipczak. While there are many fights under his belt that could have erased the embarrassment of that one moment, Lester’s inability to escape the regional scene may have sealed his fate to the masses.
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Impossible to ignore the irony of it all, Johnson learned his lesson about making similar bets, as karma is just too powerful. Hopefully so did Lester.
“Betting on doing people harm, that’s some stupid, young 20-year-old s***,” Johnson said. “I wouldn’t do that right now. I was a d***.”
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