I set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.
DERRICK LEWISEveryone else is a mixed martial artist. I’m not a mixed martial artist, I’m a brawler.
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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 know Cormier is a wrestler so you really got to get them hips down on him so I’ve been working them hips really good.
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Brock Lesnar is not a fighter. He’s scared to be hit.
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I don’t know how to do takedowns.
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Basically, I guess they just thinking I’ve been winning my fights just by luck. I just think I’ve been winning my fights on heart.
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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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Bowing and showing respect – I don’t give nothing about none of that. I’m just coming in and fighting.
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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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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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I’ve been in that situation many times before – where I’m losing and I have to knock a guy out.
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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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Like a lot of people have said, it’s not a bad loss to lose to Mark Hunt, so it’s really like a learning lesson.
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I don’t even train for these fights. I’m not mad when people say that because it’s true.
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The one thing about me, if it is a 15-minute fight, I’m fighting every one of them 15 minutes. And if it’s a 25-minute fight, I’ll be fighting all 25 until the bell rings.
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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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