I got to world champion, No 1-rated fighter in the division and managed to earn from the defences.
It's my biggest goal to become champion. I think it's everybody's goal here in the UFC.
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've always been a UFC fan, and I like McGregor and the way he promotes it.
My motivation is being unified heavyweight champion of the world, making New Zealand and my family proud.
I'm not concerned with appeasing people with a dream match. What I care about is Neville and my championship. That's all I care about.
Becoming the heavyweight champion is not what I'm dreaming of - it's my goal. It's what I'm planning to do.
I will be the UFC lightweight champion. Mark my words.
That feeling is one of the things that keep me going. On July 6, 1998, I became the WCW heavyweight champion of the world!
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.
I was fighting at 125 pounds when I was 15 years old... then became a champion at 126 pounds at 25 years old.
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.
My dad was a three-time world heavyweight champion, so I want to be a three-time world heavyweight champion.
I will become a five-division champion.
It's no easy job being a World Heavyweight Champion; these guys like Cena, Sheamus, these guys are modeled around that and are champs for a reason.
Junior Dos Santos is one of the best heavyweight fighters of all time, and he has proven it by being a champion. That is something that I want to be in my career, and I understand to achieve that, I have to beat guys like him.
I'm a champion, I have to defend this belt.
I feel great being the first Mexican heavyweight UFC champion.
Who doesn't wanna be called champion and hang that belt on the wall, right?
He's been doing this a long time. Hats off to a champion, Carlos Condit.
To me, being heavyweight world champion and Olympic sprint champion are the two greatest prizes in sport.
I want to be World Heavyweight Champion, but unfortunately, that didn't happen.
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've been a heavyweight in boxing, in kickboxing. I'll do it in again in MMA.
We came to 135 to snatch a belt, and I felt like I definitely wanted to do that. I'd be a two division, three-time world champion. So I thought it was a great idea to do, so we did it.
