When it comes to boxing I find a way to clear my mind. When it comes to boxing you have to fight. Clear your mind and fight. You can't really think of outside things when you're in the ring.

I tell people all the time, nobody wants to be hit. You have to trick a man, to hit a man.

When a 140 pounder that moves up fights a 140 pounder moved up and they move up it's a catch weight.

When I say I'm a true welterweight I'm talking about every fighter that has ever moved into the welterweight division.

Mike Tyson has to be one of my greatest all time fighters. Muhammad Ali. I like going back looking at the classics like Roberto Duran. I like the old time fighters, when you had a champion in the old days you really had a true champion. Muhammad Ali would take on anybody. You had the greats fighting everybody.

I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance.

There's a lot of great fights to make.