Quotes from Artem Lobov

Whether I like them or I don't like them, it makes no difference for me. Whoever is standing across the cage from me, that's who is going to go down.

The thing everybody thinks of when they think about Russia is how tough the people are. When they see a fighter continuously pulling out, that's something that they really don't like. Then they look at a guy like Conor who always shows up and does what he says he's going to do. That really resonates with the Russian public.

I can take a punch.

Any of the shows I've ever fought on, they always want to have me back because I always have the fight of the night performance.

If you truly believe that all the training you do can go out the window just because a guy is a few pounds heavier than you, that's just crazy.

Don't get me wrong, I'm very thankful for UFC.

I'm a true fighter. No one will ever make me quit.

Being able to train nothing but boxing for a full year made me a much better boxer as I brought in professional boxers helped me make a lot of gains.

Let's be honest here - 99 percent of MMA fans haven't got a clue what's going on. They don't understand the game enough to comment on any of that. They don't know how easy it is to have an impressive record. I could have 10 guys in my gym tomorrow, beat them all up, and there's 10 wins for my record. It is that easy. It is that easy to be 10-0.

It might seem that way, but getting hit with a bare knuckle is not as raw as getting hit with a bare knee, or getting kicked with a shin to your head, which I have been a few times. In that sense, it's nothing.

I think there is a big difference between real people and Internet people. Real life people understand that this is a sport.

I honestly really like Ryan Hall. There's nothing bad I could say about this guy.

I just couldn't turn down the money Bare Knuckle FC were throwing at me, so I ended up signing with them.

I think against Cub I get it done. He comes in, he's very open, he throws wild shots, and he has never, I promise you, in his life felt power that I have.

When you ask to go to some other country and fight their local best guy, and you know the judges are going to be his friend and the referee is going to be his coach, the head of commission guys is probably going to be his relative or something like that, and you're asked to do that for 100 Euros. Nobody wants to do that.

With the kind of power that I have - no one hits as hard as I do in the featherweight division.

I was not released by the UFC.

My record, for example, it represents a tough road. It represents a guy that was willing to fight when no one else would.

If you look at Mayweather's fights he often likes to get into the clinch, but what is a boxer in a clinch against a wrestler, an MMA fighter?

Growing up in the Soviet Union, ballroom dancing wasn't the coolest thing to do. But that probably made me tougher, because it wasn't an easy task to do ballroom dancing and not get bullied. And I never got bullied in my life, even though I changed to five secondary schools in three different countries.

UFC, this is the premier organization. This is where the toughest matchups are and this is what I'm always after.

I was absolutely honored to be invited to the Kremlin. It has been a dream of mine ever since I was a kid.

Born in Russia, forged in Ireland, they don't make them like this anymore.

The Irish and Russian communities are huge in New York, so this is truly one of the only places where I can fight in front of all of my fans.