Fabio Maldonado jumped up to heavyweight for our fight, and while he wasn't ranked, he is a super-tough dude and had never been knocked out before.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Listen, anyone in the heavyweight division in the top ten, there is no easy fight. I don't care what you say.
I beat Diaz, Pettis, Ben Henderson, Cerrone, and I earned it, man. I earned my title.
I think I went on a nice winning streak of about 20 fights until I fought Jorge Reyes and he stopped me in 6 rounds after I punched myself out.
When you look at my record at 10-0 as a professional and look at Jon Jones' record when he was 10-0, who was his toughest guy? Stephan Bonnar, and he did not finish him. I have fought higher-caliber opponents at this stage in my career than Jon did in his at 9-1; His tenth fight was Matt Hammil.
Jose Aldo, he's a stud, and I would be honored to be in there to throw down with him.
Sugar Ray Robinson was probably the greatest pound-for-pound fighter of all time.
That was the fight. I knew that I had done something that no man had been able to do to a champion.
Right now, it's very difficult to single out one fighter, pound-for-pound, who is the best. Right now, it's very complex. Miguel Cotto, Mayweather and Zab Judah's a good fighter as well.
I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
I don't have any doubt in my mind: I could knock out any man in the heavyweight division.