Fighting Rules 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.

Would I take Conor McGregor? No, he's a lot shorter than me. I don't think we'd be allowed fight - a heavyweight and a lightweight.

The UFC has too many rules, it doesn't make it better.

My all-time favorite match that I've ever had was against Kyle O'Reilly in 2012, the 'hybrid fighting rules match' where we were bleeding buckets all over the place. And it was really a match that took my career to the next level.

There's no point in fighting guys when there's no structure, there's no rhyme or reason to who gets the title shot.

Now before we get into anything, ladies, no scratching, no spitting and no tattling to mummy.

This isn't a Toughman competition; you don't just fight everybody because they want to fight.

They said if I'd fight a ranked contender, I'd get a title shot. I did that, and the next day they changed the rules.

We penalize and suspend players for making contact with the head while checking, in an effort to reduce head injuries, yet we still allow fighting. We're stuck in the middle and need to decide what kind of sport do we want to be. Either anything goes and we accept the consequences, or take the next step and eliminate fighting.

This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a chance to prove how good he is.

When I won the belt, I dominated Renan Barao, and they gave him an instant rematch within two months. And then he missed weight and they still gave him a rematch.

The only problem with Pride was guys would try to slip through the ropes to escape. But other than that, I love Pride rules.

There are a lot of details you have to work out when you're talking about fighters competing twice in one night.

There's a set of unspoken rules we live by when it comes to fighting. We can't help it. It comes from living in a civilized world. Even when you're fighting your hardest, somewhere deep down, you know how far you can go. But today the rules are gone. Today I fight not to win, but to destroy.

You get these young kids who are training their whole life to go to the Olympics. To go there and not fight someone else like them but fight someone who has might won an Olympics before, been a world champion, and is just coming back to fight some kids, I think is insane.