Chess is similar to boxing. You need to develop a strategy, and you need to think two or three steps ahead about what your opponent is doing. You have to be smart. But what’s the difference between chess and boxing? In chess, nobody is an expert, but everybody plays. In boxing everybody is an expert, but nobody fights.
With the way I fight, the UFC's not stupid. For one, they probably know that they're don't have me forever.
When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.
I love fighting for the UFC. It's an amazing company. I've done a lot of great things, and they've done a lot of great things for my career.
Being on the ground in Mongolia and traveling with the horse culture and sleeping in yurts, I was able to pick up a lot of detail. But I brought in advisors to work with our horse master to make sure the fighting strategies both on the Chinese and Mongolian sides were very accurate.
I'm getting to put all my time and effort into studying my martial arts and to be the best fighter I can be.
What's important is to be fighting in the UFC. It doesn't matter if it's the first or last show.
When I first started wrestling, I didn't even want people to know I was in the UFC.
When you get hurt it's hard to judge when it's the right time to pull out of a fight.
I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like
But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.
A lot of boxers' features change - mainly when I fight 'em
It's easy to enter the UFC, but staying there isn't.
Listen, I am in the fighting game, I don't care about anything else.
I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew about their mothers and their fathers . . . I just read all about their lives, their training.
I always trained with men, and always had to use all my power and strength to win in the gym. When I tapped men in training, I thought if I finished a man, the fight will be easy. But that's not how it works and not how I should think. A fight is completely different, and that became an issue.
I have other plans, other businesses. I have things to do. But I love to fight. I love this sport.
A lot of fighters get frustrated when they're not active.
Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at him Tell him that. Thats not nothing. Peeta: Yes and Im sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.
Miocic has that knockout punch. I was completely dizzy a few moments when we fought.
I'm an established fighter, not a fighter who needs steady progression.
I didn't really realize that I could make it into a career until midway through the 'Ultimate Fighter' show when I started beating guys who had been training in the sport for a really long time.
Best move is probably the flying knee I used in the Ultimate Fighter semi-final v Ross Pointon in 2006.
I sometimes look on YouTube and see people label videos 'Anthony Yarde sparring his trainer Ade' but that is not sparring, that's just practice. We practice getting attacked, countering and attacking your opponent back, in intelligent ways.
Two good, large fights a year is good enough for me.
