Everything in life has its perfect moments.
I think the UFC needs to value me and they are valuing me.
I always come in different. A different Charles comes in every time. A Charles that wants to fight and win and become the champion.
I would fight McGregor in any weight, no problem. It would be a good fight, I'd really like to fight him.
I'm almost certain that no one at featherweight or lightweight wants to go to the ground with me.
Man, jiu-jitsu is such a chess match.
I'm a legend now. But I'll keep my feet on the ground.
I ended up moving up to lightweight, which I didn't want, and fought a really tough guy, Will Brooks, and beat him like nothing.
My jiu-jitsu is very simple and basic.
I work on armbars, triangles, anaconda chokes, guillotines and rear-naked chokes. Basic, simple stuff. I just wanna go there and win the fight, I don't wanna invent too much and try doing fancy things.
Rear-naked chokes are easy? Yeah, it's easy to get, but people are getting better at defending it.
The only thing Kevin Lee does better than me is talk and sell fights like that. I sell fights my own way, inside the cage.
When Kevin Lee's name was brought up, I told everyone I thought this fight would happen. This is a good fight for me. It surprised me because nobody wants to fight in Brazil.
In my first interview in the UFC, I asked them to throw me among the lions. I wanted to fight the best, and that's what the UFC did. Ex-champions, future champions - that's what I wanted.
I think Kevin Lee is an excellent fighter who fights well on the feet, has evolved in that area, but his strongest weapon is wrestling, not jiu-jitsu.
There are guys that just entered the UFC and people already talk about fighting for the belt. Guys that have one fight there and say call a jiu-jitsu phenom. They haven't done anything in the UFC yet to deserve all that attention.
I would really like fight in Uruguay.
I come from the favelas, I'm grounded.
You do have to fight different when you might have to fight three times in one night. I really like fighting just one time a night, this lets you do more things.
The Brazilian circuit is very different. There are no easy fights, every gym only puts in their best guys to fight.
