I normally get paid tens of millions of pounds to fight and I ended up fighting for free. I don't like fighting for free.
Bellator offered me a job. UFC never offered me an opportunity to fight. There's no question that UFC is the top. It's a machine. A lot of people, including myself, have helped build the UFC to where it is today.
All fighters are prostitutes and all promoters are pimps.
I wanted to go into this fight business, and I wanted to go into it full force. So when you do something like that - enter into a new venture - it keeps you very busy.
I am a fight fan. I think boxing had its problems and kind of fell away for a while, but it's coming back strong .
I guess Requiem for a Heavyweight as old as it is was as honest a piece as I've ever done.
At the end of the day, it's a business about fighters and a business about people. This is our philosophy.
Trust me, I've seen a lot of fighters come in hot and they disappear faster than they came in after a loss or two. This is the UFC and the best fighters in the world are here. If you fight the great fighters you're bound to lose.
Fighters no longer manage themselves: they have a whole team behind them. A fighter has a manager, an agent, a Hollywood agent - they got this and that. And on top of that, they've got their whole team of coaches.
