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I am still very passionate about MMA and my career. I love fighting but I want to save that passion for the fights and the training.
And I am tired of talking and not getting the result I wanted. I want my energy to be on training and winning, not on getting too emotional before the fight. I don’t want to be watching UFC Primetime two days before the fight going ‘Oh, why did you say that, you idiot?’
You can never choose how someone takes a quote of something you say and uses it. Once you say it you have to accept that it is out there. I said something one time about is it too much to ask to be the best fighter in the world, and that is out there forever.
Legacies and who’s the best pound-for-pound, I don’t know about that. There really isn’t one best fighter, even in one division you can have an argument.
I know a lot of people say Georges St-Pierre is the best welterweight ever, but in a lot of ways Matt Hughes is the best welterweight ever in my mind. Look at his record as UFC welterweight champion: He had eight stoppages. He was fighting the top guys and stopping them inside the distance. I can tell you about it myself. I don’t want to start anything with Georges, but I think finishing fights counts for something.
I’m happy with what I accomplished. How my career has gone is a little different to how I imagined it going, that’s for sure. I’m two-division champion and I have stayed around for a long time, so it is different to what Matt and Georges did by dominating one division over a long period of time.
Honestly, I feel there’s more to come from me. I want more big wins and hopefully a title shot and to win another title. But I’m also older and realize sometimes getting that title is timing. If I win fights and the champion is due to fight and I am healthy, I can get a title shot. But the timing has to be there for me, the champion and the UFC, and I can only control some of that.
And I am tired of talking and not getting the result I wanted. I want my energy to be on training and winning, not on getting too emotional before the fight. I don’t want to be watching UFC Primetime two days before the fight going ‘Oh, why did you say that, you idiot?’
You can never choose how someone takes a quote of something you say and uses it. Once you say it you have to accept that it is out there. I said something one time about is it too much to ask to be the best fighter in the world, and that is out there forever.
Legacies and who’s the best pound-for-pound, I don’t know about that. There really isn’t one best fighter, even in one division you can have an argument.
I know a lot of people say Georges St-Pierre is the best welterweight ever, but in a lot of ways Matt Hughes is the best welterweight ever in my mind. Look at his record as UFC welterweight champion: He had eight stoppages. He was fighting the top guys and stopping them inside the distance. I can tell you about it myself. I don’t want to start anything with Georges, but I think finishing fights counts for something.
I’m happy with what I accomplished. How my career has gone is a little different to how I imagined it going, that’s for sure. I’m two-division champion and I have stayed around for a long time, so it is different to what Matt and Georges did by dominating one division over a long period of time.
Honestly, I feel there’s more to come from me. I want more big wins and hopefully a title shot and to win another title. But I’m also older and realize sometimes getting that title is timing. If I win fights and the champion is due to fight and I am healthy, I can get a title shot. But the timing has to be there for me, the champion and the UFC, and I can only control some of that.
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