I believe I get the belt then I’ll get the money. I’m not trying to be the best fighter in the world. It’s all about the cheddar.
DERRICK LEWISI 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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I like to fight tough fights.
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I know I only need one punch to knock any guy out.
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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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The guys in the top five, they’re good everywhere. Me, I’m just almost one-dimensional.
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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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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 gotta work on my overall game.
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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 ain’t trying to fight for no title.
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I speak my mind too much, and the UFC probably don’t really like that. But I really don’t care.
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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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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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I have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.
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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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I’ve been in that situation three or four times before where I’m losing the fight – the fight seems almost over with – and I knew I had to finish him and stop playing possum as much.
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