Takes
Jake Paul purposely lost to Tommy Fury to make the rematch more profitable
The conspiracy part of Twitter... they were saying that Jake Paul, in order to sell the next fight purposely knew that it would be bad if he won this fight. I think the storyline's better for a second fight... because no one would want to watch another one if he just beat him.
Dimitri Bivol might be one of the best pound-for-pound fighters of all time
I think Bivol might end up being one of the best pound-for-pound fighters of all time in the world. Maybe in of all time... honestly, for his legacy, which he deserves, I think he needs to fight Canelo again at 168.
MMA fighters should start wearing shin guards in professional fights
They should make the shin kicks illegal. Or make them wear shin guards like they do in other MMA sports... I think literally guys are just kicking so hard the shin can't evolve fast enough.
I am going to 'skull fuck' Jose Canseco in our fight
I'm going to skull fuck him. ... I'm absolutely going to skull fuck him. No doubt. He's tiny. I mean, yeah, he looks big. He's 270 pounds. But I just care about the frame. He has a smaller frame than I thought.
I will 'wipe Jose Canseco off the face of the earth' and force him to retire from public life
If I beat up Jose Canseco and he loses his fight, I don't see how he can even show his face in public again. So I'm literally wiping him off the face of the earth. We're never going to hear from him again.
Fighters come back as better people after being sent to the Shadow Realm
If you get someone unlucky and Street Jesus baptizes you, you want [to go to] Shadow Realm my brother, but you could come back a better person from The Shadow Realm... most come back a better person. Look at Ben [Askren], some hard thinking back a better person.
I would fight Jon Jones again even if he is on performance-enhancing drugs
At the end of the day, he won the fights, and that's all I want to do is win the fights. So if that means fighting him again, even if he's on the stuff, I mean, you have to do it. So, yeah, of course I want to fight him again.
Floyd Mayweather's quickness would prevent Conor McGregor from taking him down in an MMA fight
[Mayweather] would punch [Conor McGregor] like 20 times by the time he got to him.
I could take a full-strength punch from Floyd Mayweather without getting knocked out
Floyd Mayweather, he doesn't knock people out. He's got soft hands. ... [I] could take a full wind-up punch from Floyd Mayweather and not get knocked out.
Former NFL linebacker James Anderson could clean out the UFC heavyweight division
James Anderson... I've been actually trying to convince to fight. ... This dude could fight. He really could. He is so athletic and violent, and he understands it. And he's not a big name, but he would clean out the heavyweight division.
Kimbo Slice meant as much to our generation as Muhammad Ali meant to our parents' generation
It's a hot take, but it's kind of the correct take. Kimbo Slice meant a lot, too, to us. Because that early YouTube time, when he – do you remember watching those videos of Kimbo just bashing people's skulls in and saying, what the hell is going on? He was the baddest guy I've ever seen.