I always had dreamed one day Bruce Buffer’s going to be introducing me. Derrick ‘The Black Beast’ Lewis and I just always pictured him saying it.
DERRICK LEWISThe sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
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You eat salad and you’re hungry the next 30 minutes and you’re hungrier from when you ate the damn salad.
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I’m an optimistic guy.
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I set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.
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The sport itself is dangerous. Anything can happen.
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It’s like I say all the time, it’s the heavyweight division. It doesn’t matter if the guys a black belt or if he’s a world-class boxer. We still have a 50-50 chance.
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I’ve been in deep waters a bunch of times in my fights.
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Everyone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
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You’ve really got to stay ready 24/7. You really can’t get ready because there’s no telling. They’ll call you short notice to fight anyone so you really have to stay ready.
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There’s nothing I really want to accomplish. I already set my family up pretty good right now.
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I go in to fight just to fight. I don’t care about submissions, the technique and all of that.
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A lot of people said I would never make it, and this and that, I’d never be a top 10 fighter, that I’d never fight for a title. Just stuff like that. Achieving all those goals and being the person that I am, this is going against everything everyone said I couldn’t do.
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I don’t care where I’m at in the heavyweight division. As long as I win enough, so they keep me. That’s about it.
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I don’t care if I ever fight for the belt or get the belt.
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I don’t know how to do takedowns.
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I like to fight tough fights.
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I tell people all the time that it would be good if they forget about me next week, that they don’t even mention my name anymore.
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I don’t care what people think.
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I wanted to start in boxing, but you have to train a little harder to be a boxer. A lot of those guys can take punches. MMA, you only have to hit someone so hard to knock them out.
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It’s all the stuff I’ve been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.
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I know I’m the least technical guy in the sport. Most of the champions or guys at the top are real martial artists.
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This heavyweight division, it takes just one punch for anyone. It doesn’t matter how hard you train or what.
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I know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.
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I’m fighting just so I can take care of my family.
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I throw so hard because I sit and wait for that perfect moment.
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It would be cool to let people know that it doesn’t matter what kind of background you have in your past, that you can still make something out of your life.
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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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