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.
After I came back from London with a gold medal, my focus straight away was to defend it four years on.
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.
I carried the WBO belt for five years and defended it 15 times against 10 world champions.
Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.
Once you get the nod, your mentality totally changes. It's like a heavyweight fighter-you win the title and that's it, you don't want to look back and you don't want to change. That's the way I feel and I'm looking to keep the job.?
Defending the Impact title against Jay Lethal would be phenomenal.
I'm proud to be British champion, and I'll defend it until I can get a fight for a world title.
Real are the type of club where you are expected to win every game. For a player who wants to be the best it is stimulating to feel the pressure to defend their interests.
I've defended my title for eight years, let's see if Ricky (Hatton) is still champion in four years.
I want to defend my throne. All my fans know. They love me. I want to defend this; I want to be a champ and keep defending. Come try to take over my village.
Every single time I defended the belt, it was against the best guy in the world.
My goal is to keep going out there and defending my belt and stacking up pay cheques to set myself up for the future.
Being happy is very important. We won our second championship last season and we have our entire team coming back to try and defend our title again. I'm very proud of that.
For every champion, after you win the belt, you want to defend it as many times as possible.
I am very, very proud of being United States Champion and defending it.
It is hard to be number one, and it is even harder to stay there because everyone is trying to knock you off the top.
I think that the World Champion should try to defend the quality of play more than anyone else.
I want to defend and put my title on the line as much as possible. If the top in the division are ready to try to come and take my belt - and the key word is 'try' - I'm ready to give them that opportunity.
I'm here at Madison Square Garden as world champion and have a world champion's mentality, the pressures on to defend my belt - this is what champions do.
