Anytime you fight a champion, you got to watch the tape closely and study him closely.
I'm not surprised to be the coach on 'The Ultimate Fighter.'
It's interesting how Khabib fights but to me it's just boring, it's lazy.
Every fighter has a different agenda. Every promoter has a different agenda for their fighter. Every manager has a different agenda. So things change all the time.
Everybody that I fight always avoids jiu-jitsu.
I hate hearing in a UFC corner, 'You won the first four rounds; just stay away from him this round.'
It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.
All boxers are different, and we all approach the fights in different ways.
Stylistically, Tommy Hearns is much better than Marvin Hagler - his technique and punching were better - but he just couldn't do it. He couldn't beat Marvin Hagler, and it's because styles make fights.
When good fighters fight, they often make predictions. It's all part of the media hype beforehand.
I've been fighting professionally since I was 18, and I've been doing three or four fights a year, just doing camp after camp.
I've been in the fight business my whole life. I know fighters.
He's gonna try and stand back, mess me about a bit, be cagey and hold on the inside and make it one of them fights that are boring. I don't wanna make a boring fight. I don't like to be involved in boring fights!
Why would I stand there and trade punches and try to knock out George Foreman?
I like Glover Teixeira; he's a former training partner.
I believe that style-wise, matchup-wise, I matchup much better against Anderson Silva than Jon Jones, but it doesn't mean that I'm scared to fight at 205.
You don't want to be going into any fight thinking you've got to get a knockout, or force a stoppage, because it takes you out of your gameplan.
For me, MMA is like speed chess. It's like I'm herding a person into a certain position. Say my endgame is an arm bar. I'm not gonna actually take you and put you there. What I'm going to do is convince you that it's a good idea to move in the direction I want you to go.
Every time I touched Ronda, connected a punch, I wanted more and more. That's why the fight was so fast. Every time I connected, I felt that she couldn't take it, so I threw more and only stopped when it was over. But it was good.
I've fought on some big cards. I've fought in some big arenas, on televised cards, pay-per-view cards, whatever.
I have watched stuff like Mixed Martial Arts and boxing, and sometimes it's disappointing because the big fight is over like in 30 seconds or so.
GSP is at the top of my list in knowing how to use strategy, how to bring an opponent out of his game, how to beat a guy without taking a beating. And he's good in standup and good at grappling.
I get the headlines for being slick and different things like that - which is part of my game - but it's just amazing to me that a lot of times, the people don't see the other things that go on in that ring. But a lot of times, when my opponents figure it out, the fight is over. It's too late.
I want to fight at middleweight.
In the future, I want to have super-fights.
