I wrestled Jordan Burroughs two times - Jordan Burroughs had a hell of a time trying to take me down. I stopped his double leg numerous times. And he also, probably, fractured my sternum - from me trying to stop him.
I am a Division I All-American wrestler, but I wrestled college wrestling matches, seven minutes long. If I was to go in there and wrestle for seven minutes of a fight, a 25-minute fight, you're not getting nothing out of me for the rest of the time.
I have a human services bachelors degree and I want to work social work, I want to work with at-risk youth.
I win and lose in one way. And that's either putting them to sleep or putting it on the line and going to sleep.
I'm trying to be as real as I can and I'm being myself. I'm not gonna create an act.
Humans recognize effort, and that's what I do. I give max effort.
It's life or death for me every single time I step in the cage.
Working in a juvenile detention center, being a probation officer for at-risk youths, I'll do something like that. Something nice and stable.
My only goal ever in a fight was to go in there and create chaos. Now, I want to control the chaos that hate's created. I want to fight in the right spots.
You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.
I'm not an idiot.
There's not a lot of people that can sit there and take the punishment that I can deliver.
Me and my brother, as anybody who's a twin will tell you... it's a competitive relationship. Ours is really competitive.
I want to fight Khabib. I think I'm one of the biggest threats to his title.
I'm not here to take damage. I don't want to not be able to talk. Every single time I fight, I know that... this could be the last time that you're able to do this, the last time you're able to talk.
I've never been in a street fight before, like one-on-one.
God, it's such an unforgiving sport.
I'm hoping to earn enough to buy a few properties, that way I can make money that way and I want to do social work.
I went to college, I wrestled and I took some amateur fights. When I graduated, I wanted to start using my degree, but I figured I would start fighting professionally. Then I won 18 in a row and I fought Eddie Alvarez on pay-per-view.
I get paid by the fight, not by the minute.
