My goal is to become the first Mexican heavyweight champion of the world.
I don’t have a problem putting on or cutting weight. I would adapt my training if I’m training for a Light Heavyweight fight by using different techniques and by wearing a weight vest to get used to the extra fighting weight.
Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.
I was sparring with Dan Christison, a big heavyweight. I threw a leg kick and broke my fibula. Before the Florian training camp.
I’ve trained women to be catch wrestlers. Shayna Baszler’s a catch wrestler, she’s clearly not a heavyweight. Megumi Fujii, far from being a heavyweight, and she was a fantastic catch wrestler.
My first broadcast partner provided color commentary even though he was totally blind. Leroy McGuirk was a former NCAA Wrestling Champion at Oklahoma State University and long time kingpin of the NWA Junior Heavyweight Division before losing his sight in a car accident in Little Rock in the early 1950s.
The goal is to be heavyweight champion of the world.
My dream would be fighting against whoever the WWE World Heavyweight Champion was at WrestleMania.
Fedor is the greatest, no doubt. For me, in a matter of admiration, he is the greatest of all time. He is a heavyweight who beat everybody. He certainly was ‘The Baddest Man on the Planet.’
The margin for error with Mark Hunt is a lot smaller than it is with some of the other heavyweights where you can get caught with a shot and maybe recover.
It’s the most important prize in WWE, the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. You’ll do anything and everything to keep it and to get it, and that includes putting your body on the line and doing whatever it takes.
I would love to have gone there, fight at Madison Square Garden or a casino in Las Vegas, but there are no American heavyweights now who can pose a challenge to me.
When I was five years in, I was the UFC heavyweight champion, and all I could think about was fighting.
I’ve been a heavyweight in boxing, in kickboxing. I’ll do it in again in MMA.
I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.
At the end of the day, if you look where The Shield was, where else are we going to go? Are we going to share the WWE World Heavyweight Championship? I don’t think so.
To have a heavyweight world champion from Manchester is something you can only dream of.
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of ‘The Naked and the Dead’ and American literature’s leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of ‘The Village Voice.’
I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.
I would meet Tim Elliott at 135. At heavyweight if he wanted.
I’ve played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I’ve been fortunate enough to play with them, a who’s who. All of those guys, I’ve been fortunate enough to have performed with.
I want to be the light heavyweight champion of the world.
That’s why I train with faster guys, lighter guys, my category and with the heavyweight guys. Because I want to be ready for everything.
I main-evented a sold-out Budokan Arena show; I participated in the first-ever ladder match in NJPW, made the transition from junior to heavyweight, and earned a G1 win with a series full of performances that I’m personally very proud of.
I’m one of those heavyweights who’d like to fight as often as possible.
My motivation is being unified heavyweight champion of the world, making New Zealand and my family proud.
It’s no secret that the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Championship is a huge dream of mine. There’s been so many guys I looked up to – Pegasus Kid, Owen Hart, Liger, Prince Devitt, Kota Ibushi… the best of the best have held that belt.
The British scene in boxing, not just the heavyweight division, is popping.
Listen, anyone in the heavyweight division in the top ten, there is no easy fight. I don’t care what you say.
For me, to get any match is fine. For me to be thrown right into the mix and be named No. 1 Contender for the World Heavyweight Championship is a blessing.
I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.
One of the great moments for me was Riddick Bowe defeating Evander Holyfield to win the world heavyweight title. That was a night when you thought, ‘Woah, this guy is special.’ But then after that Riddick never really fulfilled his potential.
I know I can win the heavyweight championship.
My goal is to be the undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World.
A guy with my size and speed, the technical savate kicks can be very dangerous for a heavyweight.
I love fighting big guys because I’m fast. I’m not a big, light heavyweight. I can move. I can get inside on them. I’m inside, I’m wrestling with them, and they’re just wrestling, but all the time, I’m chopping; I’m slapping.
