Now all I’m focused on is getting as harder fights as I can each time and just focusing on being as good as I possibly can.
At one point we were looking at world titles but I think there’s six years in it, the plan hopefully, if I stay injury free, is to work towards that in that amount of time.
I haven’t even trained for over two years yet, so even if I went five, six or seven fights unbeaten and they offered me a world title shot, I would say no.
Like I’ve always said, in my career I won’t go unbeaten because easy fights aren’t want I want.
I could have fought Baby Slice, but I wanted to fight Corey Browning, the guy that beat him.
My mentality to the game has changed, at first it was make a quick buck and get out out of there.
But now it’s to go as far as I possibly can, and if that means fighting some good kids, then that’s what I want.
Moving from welterweight to lightweight
I debuted at welterweight, and I thought I was quite comfortable at the weight due to working with GrillaFitness and my nutritionist.
But when you start seeing actual welterweight at the top of the game, they’re massive, they’re huge and I realised this division is not for me.
I knew I had to come down as I understood these guys are cutting 10-15 kilos to get to the weight, so you can’t be walking around at 80kg and fighting at 77kg.
You would be tiny compared to them, so you have to follow and drop the seven, eight or nine kilo’s to make the next weight down.
My boxing coach was saying to me we’re not losing the power, obviously you just lose some weight of the punch.
I’ve now got a new boxing coach and the accuracy and speed is there, he’d told me what I’ve slightly lost in power I’ve gained in speed.
When I hit them now it won’t just be a heavy shot, it will be a flash bang and before you know it my opponent will be sitting down.
I’m coming down in weight gradually this time, before my last fight which was a catchweight atr 74kg I was still 10 kilos over in camp.
Fighting at lightweight now and in camp I’m just seven kilos over, so I’m comfortable at this weight, it’s coming off nicely and it won’t be a big hit.
Studying my next opponent, Corey Browning and the Law of Attraction
You have to have a look at your opponent, your coach can only do so much, but we know exactly what we’re working for.
But then again, when Baby Slice fought Browning, he put everything into his takedowns and just gassed.
He was that scared to stand with him he put everything he had with him in trying to take him down to the ground.
I’ve got the Law of Attraction books, but I haven’t got round to reading them yet, my mentality is – if you want something and believe in it, then it will happen.
When I first said I wanted to do MMA the plan was always to get to Bellator within a year or two.
Everyone was laughing, and when they all laughed I was in the gym putting the work in, behind the scenes.
If you believe in something so much, then it will happen, I believe I will go all the way, and when everyone laughs at that I’m the one putting the work in the gym.
UFC star Polyana Viana beating up a mugger
This week UFC woman's fighter Polyana Viana beat up a man who tried to mug her in Brazil.
Look at the state of the kids face, and she’s a strawweight, she's tiny and she absolutely smashed him up.
It was probably some druggie out of his head thinking he could rob a woman and he had his face absolutely smashed in.
I never used to get any s*** from people, never, and I’m not really one of those people who walks around the place thinking I own it anyway.
For me I never tried to jump the cues or anything I’d stand with everyone else, I’ve never got s*** because it’s me, what you see is what you get.
Michael Venom Page vs Paul Daley
If you listen to my podcast with Gareth A Davies, you’ll know we’ve been discussing the grudge match between Michael Venom Page and Paul Daley, which takes place on February 16.
Whatever it’s going to be, it will be a war, because there’s nothing better than a fight between two people that hate each other.
There’s no better fight than when two guys can’t stand each other, so I think they’ll both go for the knockout.
It’s hard to call, as MVP is quality, but so is Paul Daley, if he lands on you then it could be goodnight.
I am disappointed it’s not in England, but I’ll be watching anyway and whoever wins that then we’ll see who the better man is.
They'll both stand and fight, I saw Daley training with taekwondo, and he’s obviously preparing well for it.
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