Quotes from Artem Lobov

I've never been a big fan of jewellery or any of the shiny stuff, I just want to fight.

When I first fought in K-1, I knocked out a guy in two minutes.

Having your hands up doesn't stop you from getting knocked out and there are a lot of advantages to having your hands down. It's also more exciting because it looks very impressive from the fans' perspective, which is a big factor in the entertainment business.

A personality like Conor's appeals to the Russian people a lot. He's always ready to go, he knocks people out and he's tough.

In Russia, the people have been brought up tough. It used to be the Soviet Union. The thing everybody thinks of when they think about Russia is how tough the people are.

For me it's my biggest sporting achievement being Conor McGregor's sparring partner.

Many MMA fighters have tried boxing before, even just sparring for a few rounds, but no boxer has done MMA rounds. There's just no way for them to do that.

Honestly, I'm destroying people in sparring, but for some reason I haven't been able to show my full potential in the UFC.

I bring in the hardest sparring partners you can imagine and I'm going through the guys.

There is such a thing as building a fight, that's no problem, we're going into fight each other. That takes certain levels of intensity that you have to have. You're going in there to hurt the guy and he's going to do the same to you so that's understandable.

I feel Alex White is exactly the type of guy I always talk about, with an undeserved, padded record. There's many, many of them in the UFC, because this is the easy way in.

I want to be able to take fights across multiple sports and one of the main reasons is I really want the Tukhugov fight. I want to be able to accept that should that call come.

When you fight someone, it's different. It's a lot of conflict that you can have. Once you fought somebody, that's it. There's not much to it anymore. You went in there, you settled it like men, one on one, and that's it. After that, I don't think there's really a point to kind of carry it with you, any of that negativity.

My attitude is that I just never give up. I've been choked out twice and had my arm broken in a fight but I've never tapped.

I want to fight everyone. Weight makes no difference when it comes to who I want to fight.

I've said it before, me and Conor are very, very good friends, and he's certaintly helped me get into the UFC, you know, it is what it is, it makes no difference.

I want to be able to take fights on short notice.

Boxers are absolute novices in the clinch.

Whenever someone has an unorthodox approach, different to what a standard boxer would look like, they write it off as being bad. They never seem to look at the normal approach to boxing and think that it might be slightly outdated.

Artur Sowinksi is a fight that I want to put right for a long time - that win was stolen from me. His friend was the promoter, a Polish promoter at the time and he overturned it, but that's a win in my mind - it was a win that was stolen from me.

I know there's not a man in the world in any of the striking arts that would just run over me.

If no one is watching, it doesn't matter what else you are achieving, you are not successful.

Once you're inside that Octagon, it's one-on-one. Your skill versus his skill. Your heart versus his heart.

I certainly will explore all avenues. K-1, boxing, all of them.