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I believe in my striking game against Weidman's wrestling. He's complete in every aspect of the game, but I'm confident in what I do.
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Karate is my main martial art; that is what I train in every day. It has always been in my life. Sumo is another Japanese martial art that I got into at an early age. It is something that has helped and added to my overall stance and is a good base. It is not something I necessarily use in all my fights, though.
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One of my brothers teaches karate at our gym and also handles the administrative side of the gym. My other brother is a fighter like me and teaches a class at the gym. So my brothers are always at the gym together training.
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My father was a very tough guy with me and my brothers. He wanted to teach us a lot of discipline and life philosophy. As I became more interested in martial arts, he started teaching a lot of fighting philosophy and karate philosophy. While he was a tough father, he also knew when to be sweet and show a softer side.
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Only because you moved forwards, it doesn't mean you were effective. Sometimes it's the wrong criteria to be used.
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It's best to keep a strategic fight and try to win because the level of the sport is so high.
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I think to keep my principles. To keep my principles, I think, is the most important thing. Every day, everyone change. It's normal, but your principle never can change.
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I always go into every fight trying to forget about what happened in the past, whether I won or lost.
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Brock Lesnar is a big challenge for me because he's a big guy: very, very strong, very, very powerful, very, very fast. I like the challenge. Brock Lesnar, for me, would be a very good fight.
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Machida Karate is for real combat. Other karate may be not for real combat because there are many rules for the competition, and a lot of the rules aren't good for real combat - you can't do some takedowns, you can't finish the fight on the ground. Machida Karate is very different.
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When I was 15 years old, I watched Royce Gracie in the cage, and I thought I'd like to do the same thing.
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Its not just about competition: it's my life, my lifestyle. So I train every day, and I feel very good, because sometimes training is like meditations for me; it's a good escape to me to the problems for everything.
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I eat very healthy all the time, low on fats and sweets and no fried foods.
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Anderson Silva, Georges Saint-Pierre, and Rodrigo Nogueira are some of the top fighters in the UFC among many other great fighters. The UFC has many of the toughest fighters around.
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When I signed with Bellator, I knew this would be a new positive chapter in my career.
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Many of my greatest fights and moments were in the UFC, and they were always good to me.
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Everything Mousasi says only motivates me. I have a win over him, and I think he's a little bothered by it.
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I have fought my brother some times before. We got hurt sometimes, needed stitches, but it was normal after the fights. We always had a positive rivalry that pushed both of us to our best.
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I like to be busy and fight many times a year and showcase all my potentials.
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In karate, there's a lot of respect. In fact, when an opponent accepts to fight me, he's giving me a chance to show my work, so I can't diminish him at all.
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I like to be busy, especially after I lost against Luke Rockhold. The best way to recover is to get another fight.
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I'm a real martial artist, my father always taught me that some way I have to train every day, no matter what happens your life.
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I'm a fan of Fedor, have been a fan since he was in PRIDE, a great champion, and since I like to challenge myself, new challenges, that was one of the offers that came with my move to Bellator. Of course fighting Fedor would be an honor, a dream.
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We teach the karate methodology, bringing back the history of the martial art, the attacks that stopped being used when the martial art became a sport and that my brother and I use in the cage.
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I don't want to be in this sport just to participate. I want to be in this to win, and that's what motivates me every day to break down barriers and to get better every time and to exceed my limits and to win fights.
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I can't say 'OK, let's begin to exchange and see where it goes.' We want to give a fight and give people a good show, but you have to play on a safety zone.
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It's very hard because the sport evolves so fast, changes so fast. So, you have to be there to see the changes that are happening in the moment. That's why I keep training every day. I try to mix myself in all of the academies.
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Chris Weidman is a tough guy; he's well rounded. He's known for being a wrestler. He's very good on the ground. He can knock people out standing up.
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My father is a Japanese Shotokan karate master, so I have been training karate with my family since I was three years old. I got my black belt in karate at 13 and got introduced to judo and sumo shortly after.
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I live my life - I walk the right path - but I can't be like, 'Oh, I'm scared of this or that.'
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If I had a choice, I'd rather not fight someone from Brazil, but as a professional, I couldn't say no.
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I feel that not only have I been out there promoting my style of karate, but just promoting the traditional martial arts, and it makes me very happy.
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Right after my fight against Luke Rockhold, I had surgery on my left hand. I just took out some fragments from back then. Too many training, and I had some fragments in my hand.
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My father is a master in karate. He always taught me the philosophy of Karate. When I'm talking about philosophy, I mean respect to willpower, self confidence. Those qualities, I think it's very important, not just for fighting, but for any person.
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