I hate hearing in a UFC corner, 'You won the first four rounds; just stay away from him this round.'
Don King was good to me through my years as champion, but I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. He's a wheeler dealer and you've got to be careful. He's a great con artist.
Looking back, I couldn't get enough fights because Don King owned most of the top 10 fighters, and he never gave me a fight.
My family actually owns an MMA promotion company, so it's kind of a family deal. It's called Fight Sports Entertainment, and they throw amateur fights in California. Because of that, I've given my mom a lot of the fighters to fight in a show.
Currently, I'm working with a company called DRL Promotions with my partners Dan Wise and Luis De Cubas. We're currently representing over 30 fighters.
I'm a fighter. I'm not a promoter and I'm not a manager so I leave that up to my manager and my promoter and I just fight.
Maybe when I'm done fighting, I'll open a gym and manage fighters and train fighters.
But my promoter Frank Warren knows what he is doing, and has been through this cycle many times with other fighters.
I am there for the best interests of the fighters, I want them to win. If they don’t accept that, bye bye.
