Not just me but everybody in the WEC was dreaming of fighting in the UFC and become a champ. Thank God I went there and became a champion. I root for the WEC guys. I do.

Thank God the UFC and MMA gave me a lot of stuff.

The training is intense here at Nova Uniao.

I train every day to destroy whoever they put in front of me.

Something I always liked to train is kickboxing.

I'm not scared of anyone. They have two arms and two legs, and I will do my best and win.

My next fight is always the most important fight, so regardless if I'm fighting for the title or not, I always have to go in there and give everything that I've got.

Talking makes the fight bigger... When the fight is over, everyone goes in opposite sides with money in the pocket. You have to talk trash because that brings money.

I've considered going to lightweight. As soon as my trainer decides that I can go up, then I will.

If you lose, no one will remember you, but if you're the champion, they will always remember you.

If a fighter thinks he knows everything and stops trying to evolve, he's lost.

I was really close to my father since I was young. He always told me that I had to work in order to become a man, so I had to stay with him when my mother left. He always took me to work to help him as a bricklayer. I was just a kid, so I did what I could do to help him.

We always try give the best of us in training to go in the cage and have a good performance, thus giving millions for the company. We also want to have part of these millions.

Every fighter seeks evolution.

I think the legacy Ronda leaves behind is that she changed women's MMA.

I never fought for money. I had a good career and legacy as featherweight champion.

We came from a humble background but with a lot of love, so we were able to overcome that.

I was a fan of jujitsu, so that pretty much got me started in fighting. I won a lot of local competitions when I was young and eventually won a ticket to go compete in Rio de Janeiro. In Rio, I struggled a lot in the beginning, living in the gym and not having much to eat, but eventually I joined the Nova Uniao Team and really improved my skills.

Interim belt is made for media and fans, not for me.

I want the undisputed belt.

I'm the king of Dublin.

Cub Swanson was the first to talk a lot on fight week in the WEC, and I got there and ran through him.

My father was a bricklayer, and my mother was a housewife. It was complicated, obviously, because of our humble origin, but thank God we were all focused.

The UFC and WEC didn't give me anything. Everything I conquered was my merit and from my team.