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 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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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 serious, I don’t stay in the gym each day like my opponents.
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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’ve been in that situation many times before – where I’m losing and I have to knock a guy out.
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I like to fight tough fights.
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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’m just going to keep fighting, try to stay active as much as possible.
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I just like being in fun fights.
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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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Whatever the UFC wants to pay me for, that’s fine.
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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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I have a couple of properties. Bought some houses and just rent them out.
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That’s usually the way I am – I don’t care what my opponent can do. I just focus on myself.
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George Foreman acts more like my grandfather. He and my grandfather act just alike – they’re both Christian type guys. They try to help everyone.
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If I was really trying to be the best fighter in the world, I would be in the best shape and taking it more serious but I’m not.
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