I've been proud to be national champion. I've really enjoyed it. I have very little opportunity to remind people that I'm British and it's a nice way of staying in touch. I'm going to defend it fiercely. I want to keep it.
This is what champions do: champions defend. They always say you're not a champion until you defend your title.
Winning the belt is one thing. But you're not really a champion until you defend it.
Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.
Ronda knows what's like to have this belt, she knows the power this belt has.
Every single time I defended the belt, it was against the best guy in the world.
Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
For every champion, after you win the belt, you want to defend it as many times as possible.
A lot of people think our standard is to be first in the SEC, be first in the country, first in our red zone, and run defense. We really don't go by that motto. We go by, 'Be the best Alabama defense there's been.'
I'm looking forward to wrestling Tony Nese, defending my title, and cementing my legacy as the greatest cruiserweight of all time.
