That was one of the great moments for me, getting a knockout in front of my home crowd in London.Collection: Home
It's always great fighting in front of familiar faces and not having to travel and deal with jet-lag and all of that stuff.Collection: Travel
My diet is just the normal stuff that you know is healthy - nice, clean food - meats, vegetables, fresh juices. I don't have too many sauces, I just like really plain chicken, broccoli: all clean stuff.Collection: Diet
It never is a boring fight with me fighting.
I dunno - there's always a beast that comes out whenever I want it to... I can control the beast and everything, but it comes out when I want to.
Yeah, like '300,' I've probably watched it 300 times. It's one of my favourite films. I've just finished watching 'Spartacus,' another great series. I relate a lot to those kind of films. I think most fighters should relate to those films. It just seems natural. I am Spartacus, I am Leonidas, I am the lead role in those films.
I am who I am and I tune my training to the fighter I am.
How I fight is what got me into the UFC in the first place.
I like all styles of MMA, my first classes in the sport were BJJ but I prefer to stand up.
I'm not one to call people out, if you look at my history in the fighting game, I've never called anyone out.
I always predict a knockout. That's what I go for, I hit to hurt.
But when you're cheating against your fellow athletes, that's something I can't forgive.
For whatever reason, I've always been able to hit very hard.
And I took to fighting very well. I'm a fast learner, and I needed to learn quickly. I knew this was what I wanted to do and I put everything I had into it.
I ruptured my bicep tendon in a sparring session.
It would be great to fight on UFC 200 obviously. It's going to be an historic event but the card is getting full quickly.
I can definitely get the belt. It's something I always wake up believing every time I train.
I'm a knockout specialist who comes to fight and who's exciting to watch.
I'm a bit rusty when it comes to football.
I just love putting on a show for my fans.
Daniel Crawford, who was BAMMA featherweight champion, used to train with me.
Stylistically, every fight in the division is a hard fight. Lyoto Machida is unorthodox, Jon Jones is long and tall with good wrestling, Ryan Bader has good wrestling. You can't pick one and say, 'I want to fight him.'
When you're away from home for a fight camp it's the simple things that you miss the most. For me, that's laying on the sofa with my daughters and spending quality family time and small things like that.
The most important thing is to stay fresh - physically and mentally - and to also avoid injury of course.
I'm a bit of a night owl, I'm always visiting the gym throughout the night.
I've learned about every aspect of MMA.
I'm a 'come forward' kind of guy, I will never fight any other way and I don't think I could learn anything different either.
To me a fight is a fight, it's not a contest or a martial arts competition, it's a fight.
The fear of losing motivates me, and that's it.
The London fans know what I bring to the table. Destruction.
It's easy to say when you're on the outside and when you're the coach or for people to say, 'Oh, you should have done this, you should have done that.' But when you're in there in front of thousands of people and you get hit and you want to win the fight, it's totally different.
MMA has improved my life leaps and bounds.
As soon as I found MMA, I knew that this is what I wanted to do, and it gave me focus because I was good at it anyway, and it gave me a goal to reach. I kept winning my fights, and it's given me a goal and a career opportunity.
I don't think there's anyone who strikes like me in the world.
I don't care where I am in the rankings or anything like that - I just want a UFC belt.
It's all about experiences and taking positives from each fight, even if it was a loss.
Every fight is a must-win for me.
Thankfully, hamstring injuries don't take that long to heal.
David Haye was the perfect opponent for me because he was a small heavyweight with a big name and we were about the same size.
I can't think of any heavyweights that would match up well with me. They're all too big.
I'm a knockout artist.
I'm not bothered about where I'm ranked in the world. I'm just worried about fighting the best people in the world and being a natural, original champion.
There's not so many 'big names' in cruiserweight that would interest me.
Yeah, I call my warrior spirit the lion.
I love apple crumble and custard - that's my little treat.
I'm not really into supplements, I mostly try to get it all from my food. I take multivitamins, vitamin D - which is really important - zinc and magnesium, but that's about it.
It doesn't matter to me who the opponent is, I'll be ready in all areas.
There's no such thing as a lucky punch. You throw to hurt someone and if you hurt someone, job done.
Whatever the crowd is - cheering, booing or whatever - it's not anything I bother to think about.
In every sport you get cheats.