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When I came back to the UFC, I was just excited.

If you're the UFC champion, you're the best in the world at what you do, and I get the opportunity to do that.

It's up to the UFC. Whoever they put in front of me, I'll fight.

Coming back to the UFC was huge. I was ready for the spotlight for the first time.

I know I'm a good fighter, probably a great fighter. I've fought the best in the world since I was a kid, and I've been fortunate to come out on top.

I'm never going to change who I am for the UFC.

I'm more into MMA than any other sport. I watch a lot of the UFC fights. I have since it first came onto the scene.

Winning my first UFC fight by a finish, I've never felt so accomplished in my life.

It's nice that fans want to see me fight. It definitely helps and gets everyone excited. It gets the UFC excited, and they are quick to put me back in there. But I really just focus on myself and getting ready to fight.

I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.