I've been fighting in the UFC for five years now and it's about time I'm headlining a card.
In 2017, I boxed in front of a home crowd in Sheffield and became the WBA super-middleweight world champion. After four attempts I had finally fulfilled my childhood dream, and the experience was as great as I had always imagined it would be. It was without doubt the best moment of my career.
I'm proud of my Italian roots, and I've always believed that I would get the chance to fight for the belt.
It was always a goal of mine to bring a world title fight back to my city of Baltimore.
I'd like to see him fight at 135 for the championship. I want to see how good Demetrious Johnson is or how far he could take it.
I have been fighting and winning all the fights in my division. I think I deserve a title shot.
I know deep down I'm destined to be a world champion and maybe it's to be attained in the most prestigious division in the UFC at welterweight.
The mission I set out on in the beginning - to become heavyweight champion of the world, undisputed, lineal champion - you could say that mission is complete.
You are never going to top boxing at Wembley stadium.
In 1973 I became heavyweight champion of the world with 38 victories, no defeats as a professional. You get to a point where you think you cannot lose. I felt like I had the greatest power with my fists, I was the strongest man in the world.
I'm a fan of Fedor, have been a fan since he was in PRIDE, a great champion, and since I like to challenge myself, new challenges, that was one of the offers that came with my move to Bellator. Of course fighting Fedor would be an honor, a dream.
Crossroads fights are an important part of boxing. The winner goes on to bigger and better things, while the loser squanders a significant career opportunity.
I know I've been out for a while and but I'm not going to talk about ring rust or use it as an excuse. That's nothing to me. Sugar Ray Leonard was out of the ring for years and he beat Hagler.
It took me 10 fights to get the damn interim title shot and then 11 to get an undisputed shot.
Anyone in the UFC, that should be your goal, to get the UFC belt and to fight for that title.
I'm somebody from a little tiny town, who had boxed in leisure centres, and my last fight was in Madison Square Garden against one of the greats. What a great way to finish off.
There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me.
I would love to fight anybody at the welterweight limit with a belt.
Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.
The night of Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao. I woke up that morning with a very, very bad case of laryngitis and couldn't speak at all. I had no voice. And I was able, just by having chicken soup and barley and salt water, to have just enough for that one fight.
I didn't really know who Cassius Clay was. I just wanted to show America through a heavyweight championship fight. Ever since my childhood, I'd been fascinated by the way the whole country becomes polarised around this event.
I would love to have gone there, fight at Madison Square Garden or a casino in Las Vegas, but there are no American heavyweights now who can pose a challenge to me.
For a long time, I have waited for the opportunity to fight Mr. Roy Jones. This is my personal goal and dream.
The biggest motivation for me is becoming a three-division world champion faster than any other boxer, male or female.
Just like footballers want to play at Wembley, the Nou Camp and the Bernabeu, boxers have their dream arenas too.
