I don't rest on my laurels and start getting lazy. It makes me just wanna keep working.

I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt like I would be fine and I just wanted to challenge myself against another top caliber fighter.

In the school of boxing that I come from, that's frowned upon, giving up free shots, cos we know what those kinda shots do to a man's career, regardless of whether it shows up now, or shows up when you least need it. It takes a toll.

I told myself that I'll do everything within my power to never let that happen again.

That's what makes a fighter. I got dropped and I got back up, and I found a way to get the win.

I'm not gloating over Chad Dawson, he's still the man in my book.

I want my legacy to be that I was a man of character, I was a God fearing man and somebody who bettered the sport in terms of the way I represented the sport. But also that fact that I was a fierce competitor and fought the best in the world and was able to come out on top, so if those things could be said about me, then I look at it as a job well done.