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.
DERRICK LEWISA 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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All of my fights, especially all of my UFC fights my whole career, I’ve never been in there without any kind of impingement and pain wrong with my back.
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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 have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.
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I’m not scared to fight anyone, I’ll call anyone out.
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I set some goals for myself. I really want to run through this whole heavyweight division.
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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 just have a crazy sense of humor.
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I grew up watching my mom and my stepdad fight.
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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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If I’m the champion, the whole UFC division should be ashamed of themselves for a guy that had no damn skills being the champion. They should all just go relocate somewhere.
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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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There’s nothing I really want to accomplish. I already set my family up pretty good right now.
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I don’t want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.
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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 just really want to put the past behind me, because it makes me angry thinking about it. But it’s also the reason I’ve made it this far in my career. It’s like, built up in me. It’s what I think about when I fight. My childhood.
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