I don’t want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.
DERRICK LEWISI 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.
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My goal is just to make as much money as I can in the sport, and that’s it.
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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’ve been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn’t have to go through.
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The only reason I want to climb up the rankings – beating the champion and beating guys in the top five – those are the guys that get the endorsements and get the most money and get paid the most. That’s the only reason why.
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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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That’s what really gets me going, thinking about my past. I think about all the tough times and bad times I’ve had in my life and I bring all that into the Octagon. That’s only because it’s hard going in there trying to fight someone who didn’t do anything to you.
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I go into every fight with a bad back and overweight and a damn-near diabetic.
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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 just like being in fun fights.
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I gotta work on my overall game.
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I really don’t punch with my left hand anyways.
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I don’t care if I am ever remembered in this sport for anything.
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For sure, I would love to fight in Houston.
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I believe the tough fights bring out the better fighter in myself.
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It’s a job to me, basically. I’m not trying to be the best fighter in the world or nothing like that. I don’t come in trying to think I am the best fighter. I don’t care about none of that. It’s just a job to me.
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