To do eleven fights in four months is pretty crazy. In some shows that we do in Asia, there are three or four fights over a six-month period, so you have time to recover and gain your stamina.
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If I'm straight outta shape for a fight, I might need 12 weeks or more to get in shape.
I don't see myself being in the sport a very long period of time, so I want to fight as much as possible.
You're wrestling seven days a week for four months straight. It's a great way to learn.
I just take it one fight at a time. If I'm able to fight, and I'm still healthy enough, I'd like to fight. But I'll know when it's time to stop.
People don't understand: I've had 37 fights, three to five fights every year, for 17 years. That does something to somebody. These suspensions are the only vacations I've ever had.
I train six days a week for four to five hours a day. I like to keep the same schedule when I'm in camp for every fight.
Too many fighters stay in the game for too long. They stay because it's awfully hard to walk away from the roar of the crowd. Really hard. You live for that and so you stay too long. And you might have a wife and kids to feed. So you keep fighting because you don't know how to do anything else.
As soon as I get time, I want to start to do some fight training. I tried a little boxing once with my personal trainer back in L.A. - it's such a good workout, and it's a good skill to have, especially in my industry, since sometimes you have to do stunts and fight scenes.
The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.
I've had two fights within a month and I can't ask for more than that.