“If (the UFC) go to São Paulo and he does a retirement ceremony again where he goes and puts his gloves down, I’m throwing something at my TV- via ESPN MMA”

“The way that they score mma takedowns is the problem... A takedown should not be when you get back up and the guy picks you up and just puts you back down. He never lost control. Merab didn't get 20 takedowns. Merab probably got five or six takedowns, and he got 14 mat returns.-via ESPN MMA”

“Alex is 38 years old and probably thinking at this point, 'How do I go and make another statement that I am the guy?' Hell, if he went to beat Jon Jones at heavyweight, Alex Pereira, who's already considered one of the greatest fighters of all time, in the most expedited timeline I have ever seen, would literally cement himself to almost stand above everyone because he would have beaten a former UFC light heavyweight champion and heavyweight champion, and a guy many consider as the greatest of all time-via YT”

“If I put Alex Pereira against Jon Jones, Pereira is the underdog... Against Tom Aspinall, Pereira is the underdog. Ciryl Gane? Pereira might be the underdog. But does it bring the same type of recognition or the same type of value to a victory as fighting Jon Jones? Pereira matches up also better against Tom Aspinall and against Ciryl Gane, and all these other guys than he does Jon Jones”

“I've got to tell you, I think Umar Nurmagomedov is probably the one guy that can challenge him. We saw their fight; it was 48-47 across the board. Everyone else cannot stay with him. It’s going to be very difficult for guys to figure out how to beat him because he’s just going to keep hitting them with takedowns. He’s a very hard challenge to prepare for. -reacted after Merab's victory against Cory Sandhagen”

“It was such a hot ticket that 1, as the UFC HW and LHW champion, had to buy the tickets... The fight breaks out, and Khabib is completely losing his mind about getting his belt... Finally, Khabib calms down. Dana gives me money back for calming Khabib. He goes, "I don't know if I would have been able to get this situation under control without you.-Daniel Cormier about Khabib vs. Conor fight”

“Magomed Ankalaev did have a rib injury, this is not a lie, and this is not an excuse...I know this because prior to the fight, I saw video of him getting injections into his rib to try to help him get to the fight. He was able to hit pads, and do cardio, essentially, for a month and a half before the fight. With that being said, I don’t know if the result changes if he was healthy, because of the way Pereira fought him...I know some people who are really close to [Magomed] who told him not to fight, but he wanted to fight. He wanted to beat Pereira again because he understood how important it was for him to have two wins over Alex, and a stronger statement for why he is who he is. He wasn’t 100 percent, but I don’t know if he would’ve been at 120 percent if he’d beaten Pereira that night...-Via YT Channel”

“What he did against Magomed Ankalaev is so impressive because of how good Ankalaev is. There are so many cliches like, 'The younger guy wins the rematch, as you get older, you're not as good.' Especially when you're fighting a guy who became the champion, who is supposed to be better in the rematch, especially if he's younger. Pereira doesn't pay any attention to that type of stuff. He's just a special type of talent, a special type of guy-reacted to Ankalaev's loss at UFC 320.- - Reacted to Ankalaev's loss at UFC 320.”

“Luke [Rockhold] had a girl lined up. He wants nothing more than to leave the gym, so he convinces me... I want someone to tell me to go. And everybody's like, 'no, you got to lose more weight, and I look at Luke and he's like, 'he's fine, let him go: I'm like, 'yo, we should listen to Luke! And so I listen to that moron, and I left. That's what happened, bro. I hope whoever it was was worth it to Luke because then I had to have the most embarrassing moment of my career.”

“You've got to let him fight”

“We are watching great champions, from a long time past, and from a long history of great champions do out there in a way that's no great for them, and I don't love the visuals. They say all great champions go out on their back, but they don't need to do out like that... Alternatives. You don't have to fight forever. We have our time, and then the time passes. They always say Father Time is undefeated. That's never been proved more true than with what we're seeing lately.”