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What Aldo is good at is the leg kicks, that's what oppened a lot of doors for him. He would land those leg kicks, and then the shot would come from there, but in terms of his hands, he doesn't have, I mean he has power, of course he does, but nowhere near the power that I have, I promise you that.
- Artem Lobov
#Good
#Hands
#Land
#Mean
#Power
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.
- Artem Lobov
#Done
#Life
#Never
#Power
#Wild
At the end of the day, you have to get finishes. If you want to be successful in this industry that's what you need.
- Artem Lobov
#Day
#End Of The Day
#End
#Need
#Want
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.
- Artem Lobov
#Boxing
#Done
#Just
#Tried
#Way
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.
- Artem Lobov
#Easy
#Fans
#Game
#Tomorrow
#Understand
I pride myself on having the most exciting fights ever.
- Artem Lobov
#Ever
#Exciting
#Most
#Myself
#Pride
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.
- Artem Lobov
#Back
#Fight
#Me
#Night
#Performance
For me it's my biggest sporting achievement being Conor McGregor's sparring partner.
- Artem Lobov
#Achievement
#Being
#Biggest
#Me
#Partner
I feel I have the necessary skills to compete with the best, I wouldn't have even aimed for the UFC if I didn't think I did.
- Artem Lobov
#Best
#Feel
#I Feel
#Skills
#Think
Honestly, I'm destroying people in sparring, but for some reason I haven't been able to show my full potential in the UFC.
- Artem Lobov
#Full
#People
#Potential
#Reason
#Show
It's not just boxing I'm considering, it's K-1 too. That's something I've always liked.
- Artem Lobov
#Always
#Boxing
#Just
#Something
#Too
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.
- Artem Lobov
#Bad
#Boxing
#Look
#Never
#Someone
This is the fight game, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
- Artem Lobov
#Fight
#Game
#Lose
#Sometimes
#Win
I can take a punch.
- Artem Lobov
#I Can
#Punch
#Take
I was absolutely honored to be invited to the Kremlin. It has been a dream of mine ever since I was a kid.
- Artem Lobov
#Absolutely
#Dream
#Honored
#Kid
#Mine
They should bring up my record, and call it the fighter bible. The warrior bible. All those guys with padded records should read it everyday, and they should put my picture on their wall as the Jesus Christ of MMA.
- Artem Lobov
#Bible
#Fighter
#Jesus Christ
#Picture
Boxing is stuck in the past.
- Artem Lobov
#Boxing
#In The Past
#Past
#Stuck
For me, when someone is able to beat me, that's the guy that I want to spar with.
- Artem Lobov
#Beat
#Guy
#Me
#Someone
#Want
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.
- Artem Lobov
#Building
#Fight
#Guy
#Hurt
#Intensity
I said this before, for me I will always respect the fighter that shows up.
- Artem Lobov
#Always
#Fighter
#Me
#Respect
#Will
At the end of the day, we all need competitors otherwise there are no fights.
- Artem Lobov
#Day
#End Of The Day
#End
#Fights
#Need
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.
- Artem Lobov
#Fans
#Fight
#I Can
#New
#Places
Whether it's in the UFC or elsewhere, you need to be winning in this sport.
- Artem Lobov
#Need
#Sport
#UFC
#Whether
#Winning
At the end of the day, fans make the show. If there's no one watching, then there's no one paying, then we don't earn any money, then what's the point?
- Artem Lobov
#Day
#End Of The Day
#Fans
#Money
#Show
Look, I always say this, 99 percent of people in the UFC would be gone if they have made $100 million.
- Artem Lobov
#Always
#Gone
#Look
#People
#Say
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.
- Artem Lobov
#Accept
#Come
#Fight
#Sports
#Want
I want to be able to take fights on short notice.
- Artem Lobov
#Fights
#Notice
#Short
#Take
#Want
To me, KSW is a huge promotion and it's on my list of one of the things I want to do as an MMA fighter. I think that goes for any European fighter.
- Artem Lobov
#Fighter
#Me
#Promotion
#Things
#Want
In times of war, my brothers never let me down.
- Artem Lobov
#Down
#Me
#Never
#Times
#War
Your record is where you've been, but it's not necessarily where you are or where you're going. That just shows that I've had a tough road.
- Artem Lobov
#Just
#Road
#Tough
#Where
#Your
I'm a learner and I'm a go-getter.
- Artem Lobov
#Learner
I think there is a big difference between real people and Internet people. Real life people understand that this is a sport.
- Artem Lobov
#Internet
#Life
#People
#Real
#Understand
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.
- Artem Lobov
#Fight
#Long
#Me
#Mind
#Time
I just couldn't turn down the money Bare Knuckle FC were throwing at me, so I ended up signing with them.
- Artem Lobov
#Down
#Me
#Money
#Turn
#Up
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.
- Artem Lobov
#Better
#Me
#Nothing
#Professional
#Train
I never pull out of the fights.
- Artem Lobov
#Fights
#Never
#Out
#Pull
I was not released by the UFC.
- Artem Lobov
#Released
#UFC
Obviously UFC was one of those kind of dreams that we weren't sure if we were ever going to reach, so for us, the biggest belt was the Cage Contender belt.
- Artem Lobov
#Cage
#Dreams
#Reach
#Sure
#Us
More and more Russians started watching the UFC when Conor came along. The more they watched, the more they understood it.
- Artem Lobov
#Along
#More
#UFC
#Understood
#Watching
If a fight happens between Conor and Khabib in Russia, the support would be divided between them. It would be 50-50.
- Artem Lobov
#Divided
#Fight
#Happens
#Russia
#Support
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.
- Artem Lobov
#Go
#People
#Personality
#Ready
#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.
- Artem Lobov
#People
#Russia
#Soviet Union
#Tough
#Up
I absolutely love the fight game.
- Artem Lobov
#Absolutely
#Fight
#Game
#Love
With the kind of power that I have - no one hits as hard as I do in the featherweight division.
- Artem Lobov
#Division
#Hard
#Hits
#Kind
#Power
If people are watching your fights and they care about what you do then that is success to me. As far as I'm concerned, I am one of the most successful fighters in the world.
- Artem Lobov
#Care
#I Am
#Me
#Success
#World
Anywhere I was, I always seek the hardest challenge. I win some, I lose some but I always take the hardest challenge.
- Artem Lobov
#Always
#Challenge
#Hardest
#Lose
#Win
When I was in the UFC I challenged some of the biggest guys in the world. When I was fighting in Europe I did the same.
- Artem Lobov
#Did
#Europe
#Fighting
#Same
#World
Fighting Paulie Malignaggi in bare-knuckle is not a challenge for me.
- Artem Lobov
#Challenge
#Fighting
#Me
I always seek the highest challenge, the biggest challenge.
- Artem Lobov
#Always
#Biggest
#Challenge
#Seek
I always make sure that I'm good to do business with.
- Artem Lobov
#Always
#Business
#Good
#Make
#Sure
When you don't have to worry about the financial side, you can truly concentrate on the craft. You can truly concentrate on the fights you really want to have. You have that freedom and it's extremely important especially when you have a family and you have to provide.
- Artem Lobov
#Craft
#Family
#Freedom
#Important
#Worry
I'm able to do it a lot better outside the UFC than when I was in the UFC.
- Artem Lobov
#Able
#Better
#Outside
#Than
#UFC
Once you're inside that Octagon, it's one-on-one. Your skill versus his skill. Your heart versus his heart.
- Artem Lobov
#Heart
#Inside
#Once
#Skill
#Your
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.
- Artem Lobov
#Life
#Me
#My Life
#Never
#Three
It's called the Ultimate Fighting Championship and people pay to come and see the fights.
- Artem Lobov
#Fighting
#Pay
#People
#See
#Ultimate
If no one is watching, it doesn't matter what else you are achieving, you are not successful.
- Artem Lobov
#Else
#Matter
#Successful
#Watching
#You
UFC, this is the premier organization. This is where the toughest matchups are and this is what I'm always after.
- Artem Lobov
#After
#Always
#Organization
#UFC
#Where
When I first fought in K-1, I knocked out a guy in two minutes.
- Artem Lobov
#First
#Fought
#Guy
#Knocked
#Two
I've taken fights when others wouldn't.
- Artem Lobov
#Fights
#Others
#Taken
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.
- Artem Lobov
#Conflict
#Fight
#Men
#Negativity
#Point
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.
- Artem Lobov
#Good
#It Is What It Is
#Know
#Me
#Said
I truly love fighting, so how can there be pressure for me when I absolutely love it?
- Artem Lobov
#Fighting
#How
#Love
#Me
#Pressure
Conor knows how to fight and he knows how to box. He has been boxing professional boxers for his whole life, he has had almost 50 amateur boxing fights.
- Artem Lobov
#Box
#Boxing
#Fight
#Life
#Professional
What do you call success in our sport? What determines success? Are you successful if you are 10-0 and no one is watching your fights? Is that success?
- Artem Lobov
#Call
#Fights
#Success
#Watching
#Your
This isn't a very manly thing to do, not showing up for a fight.
- Artem Lobov
#Fight
#Manly
#Showing Up
#Thing
#Up
Don't get me wrong, I'm very thankful for UFC.
- Artem Lobov
#Get
#Me
#Thankful
#UFC
#Very
#Wrong
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.
- Artem Lobov
#Easy
#Feel
#Talk
#Way
#White
I love fighting. It gives me a cheque to pay for my food and for my accommodation and that's great but I just love to fight.
- Artem Lobov
#Fight
#Food
#Great
#Love
#Me
Born in Russia, forged in Ireland, they don't make them like this anymore.
- Artem Lobov
#Born
#Ireland
#Like
#Make
#Russia
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