Artem Lobov Quotes

Artem Lobov

Profession : Mixed Martial Artist

Birth : August 11, 1986

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

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I absolutely love the fight game.

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This is the fight game, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

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It might seem that way, but getting hit with a bare knuckle is not as raw as getting hit with a bare knee, or getting kicked with a shin to your head, which I have been a few times. In that sense, it's nothing.

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I was not released by the UFC.

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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.

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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 They never seem to look at the normal approach to boxing and think that it might be slightly outdated.

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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.

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

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Boxing is stuck in the past.

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I just couldn't turn down the money Bare Knuckle FC were throwing at me, so I ended up signing with them.

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UFC, this is the premier organization. This is where the toughest matchups are and this is what I'm always after.

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More and more Russians started watching the UFC when Conor came along. The more they watched, the more they understood it.

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When you ask to go to some other country and fight their local best guy, and you know the judges are going to be his friend and the referee is going to be his coach, the head of commission guys is probably going to be his relative or something like that, and you're asked to do that for 100 Euros. Nobody wants to do that.

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I'm a true fighter. No one will ever make me quit.

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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.

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I pride myself on having the most exciting fights ever.

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I honestly really like Ryan Hall. There's nothing bad I could say about this guy.

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

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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?

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