Fighter Safety Quotes

In boxing, you have the 10-second count but we don't have it in MMA, and that's what makes this sport better.

I don't recommend anybody becoming a fighter.

When it comes to damage, boxing will cause more damage than MMA ever will.

I can't take 200 hacks in the cage before the game. Not because I'll get tired, but because I'll hurt myself! I can't do that. I might get injured.

Us fighter put our lives on the line to entertain the fans that watch.

In boxing, if a fighter doesn't leave the sport on time, something bad is likely to happen.

The referee jumped in too late in my opinion. He's the champion and he's got to be given every chance, but a lot of people was wincing and cringing seeing the finish cos his head is bouncing all over the place.

The fighters in the UFC are treated very well.

The problem with these UFC fighters - and they're all fantastic athletes, top of the line in the entire world - is that they wear their bodies down in these training camps. All these guys that are cutting weight are just destroying their own bodies.

Considering fighters are usually going to want to fight the best, they need to be protected from themselves. That's where management should come in.

Every fighter wants to... take the least amount of damage possible.

I thought that Yoel Romero and Tim Means got the only two tainted bottles of protein in the world. I thought it was crazy. You never know with these companies; you've got to be careful.

When I see a fighter gets into the ring, I not only see the fighter, but I see his wife and children. I care about what happens to them. I care about what happens to that fighter after he gets out of the ring.

The only thing I'd like to see is to give fighters an option to wear a small headguard, a one-ounce headguard. Some fighters might not want that option. But you know - you're training all the time, you're boxing all the time, and you've got a headguard on, you're using big gloves, and you're getting hit. And you observe that your face is better protected that way. Now they're doing it with ten-ounce gloves and no headguard. I think if they have a one-ounce headguard on to protect some of those brain cells in the head, it would be beneficial to the fighter.