Biggest inspiration for me it was

my dad you know it was my father

all my life you know it's like
[Music] i'm doing all these things
only because of him he was like for
me is like biggest motivation you
know he gave me good energy he
gave me good advice you know
and with him we knew like what
we need what we want you know
like exactly when father put me
with like put me wrestling with
beer when when i told him hey this
beer tried to bite me and i
remember when he told me like
bite him back no problem you have
to wrestle you have to keep going
daytime nobody compete from
russia and ufc and it was very hard
to sign like when i signed end of
the 2011 it was almost impossible
sign with the ufc like someone
 from russia yeah it was like first
athlete i think people in that area
like they just love competition they
this is like inside their blood you
know and i think like because of
this area like like thousands years
you know they competition with
someone because of uh like
because of this place like where
this place right now like because of
geography like everything i think
this is our in inside our blood not
many people believe us but when i
see how father believe me how
really want this this is giving me
like crazy energy they signed me
and a lot of people look at like
fighters coaches like analytics like
like media people like everybody
look at like okay it's like he's only
23 years old but he have good
record but we don't think this he's
ufc level we don't think and i think
no no no i'm gonna show these
guys i'm gonna show these guys
how i can become best in the world
you know after 10 years i become
one of the best of all time whoever
did this i'm gonna be here always
you know if i'm gonna be alive i'm
gonna be here and i'm gonna smash
all your boys we can do whatever
we want this is ufc this is not nba
or soccer this is ufc you know we
can do whatever we want when
you have big name your opponent
have big name like you guys very
popular you can you guys can do
whatever you want i like when
between you and your opponent
when you guys have some pressure
or like some beef or something like
this but but this sport and a lot of
kids follow this and i think most
 important like show respect and
show good fights we have a lot of
hate on this world you know i don't
wanna give people bad energy
don't focus on your opponent why
you have to focus on him just focus
on yourself train all the time not
only training camp for me it's like
every day on training camp you
know i never do like okay they
give me fight i train but without
fight i don't know i hold it
untrained even if i broke my leg
broke my arm broke my ribs
doesn't matter even if i have
surgery on my bike and i was like
doesn't matter i always train i
always in gym even i cannot do
nothing i just come to the gym and
i watch and i try to learn something
and you know this is how you have
to be if you want to be champion i
just want to everyday compete and
when fighting fire fight they come
i just want to do what i do every
day i fight and i show the world
you know like from nowhere i
come here and take over
everything i don't understand
people when they talk about oh this
is like one day before the fight i
was preparing preparation
preparing for different type of style
you know i cannot i need time to
prepare like i don't understand this
you know if you want to be best
you can you have to be best if you
guys watch my every fight every
fight i improve you know if you
want to be champion if you have if
you want defend your title you
have to become high with mma
because mma every day like grow
up like go high high high because
 lara tough young hungry guys
coming and you have to be ready
for everybody my job is defend my
title you know number one job it's
my defend my title if i won't
defend my title i have to spend five
hours every day in the gym no i
train every day i train every day
like i used to like all my life you
know i cannot stop training this is
give me good energy every day
you know if i'm not training and i
think like i have to do something
you know that's why everything is
together if you lose something
everything go down that's why i try
to control everything because i
know the history of mma i know
uh this history of champions a lot
of champions when they become
champion and a lot of guys like
when they win they little bit
 change i think everything about
discipline everything about
discipline and every day and every
day every day like you know train
sleep eat repeat it's have to become
your lifestyle and everything here
in mental you know everything
about mental you know it's like
like people ask me like uh when
you become champion what you
feel like and i said no in my mind i
was always champion since when i
like you when ufc signed me it was
like 2012. 2013 14 like that time i
would think about i'm gonna beat
these guys i'm gonna i can beat all
of them you know like everything
about mental before when you
become champion you work
because you're hungry you need
this and you have big motivation
then you become champion you
 little bit lose your motivation but
you and you forget about other
guys yeah a lot of guys coming like
training so hard very hungry a lot
of young guys a lot of young
generations so they train so hard
they they hungry they wanna they
wanna beat you they want your
place what you have now and that's
why you have to worry about this
but sometimes not everybody can
control this i know like a lot of
people don't believe this but my
team my father my close people
they believe me they support me i
cannot be away from this because
all these guys they support me all
my career and these guys big part
of my success you know that's why
i'm here that's why like i leave my
family i come here to support these
guys i have guys in my team i give
 them advice you guys like like
when i see someone he don't have
fire he's like aged like i just tell
him hey you you it's gonna be
better if you find other job in this
sport you have to be very hungry
or other way like someone gonna
come and hurt you when you have
family kids when you have all life
ahead and when you have tough
life hard life become success very
easy because you have motivation
you're hungry you need this you
know and when you have
everything you have money you
have food you know you have
house car everything you don't
want to go to the gym and you
know training so hard fame and
money show who you are you
know all the time we hear about
like money and the fame change
 people no when money and fame
come these two things show who
you are just talk like i don't like
this just say i'm gonna do this i'm
gonna do this okay if you wanna
do this shut up and go you can't
talk you can do nothing like you
have to show up and fight and
everybody understand who is who
people know who is who i was ufc
champion i defend my tata free
time you know i never lose fights i
never lose rounds because of
hungry because of focus because of
this sport doesn't matter this sport
don't care about who you are this
part care about only hard work and
all my life i was training i was
preparation for something like
since when i was kid and now
when i finish like half year ago like
every every day i go to the training
and i do something because i know
i have competition and all my life i
was doing something like
preparing for somebody for some
amateur fights amateur resting or
professional mma this is not about
like i fight couple time in ufc i'm
talking about this no i show this
like it was biggest fight in ufc it
was like very big pressure in all
world watching this fight when i
was fighting my my decision my
job was like smash my opponents
and i did this perfectly and then i
was like nobody was close why i
have to be stressed for what i'm
already ufc champion i defend my
title you know i'm undefeated i
enjoy with my hard work with hard
training with my brothers with my
team you know with everything
what happened inside outside the
 cage and i just enjoy with it i'm
very happy about all my journey
you know and uh right now i feel i
i don't have nothing to improve
like to show people who i am like i
do everything in this sport i have a
lot of guys you know i'm gonna i'm
gonna support them i'm gonna be
very close to ufc and uh i'm gonna
be around guys i i'm i'm not going
to let you guys miss me you know.

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