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When you're watching people in non-title fights making four times the amount of money that a champion makes, it takes away the flavor of being a champion.

Bring the fights on. If I'm going to be the champ, I gotta beat everyone anyway, so what does sitting and waiting and holding my position do?

I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.

You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.

If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

Listen, I'm the champ, and I'm not going to pick and choose who I fight.

If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.

I still am champion in my own right.

All you can do is the same as any other fight: whoever they put in front of you, you go in there and try to get the W.