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9th September 2018
09:11am BST

"I'm always confident, everyone knows that but I was thinking that the job had already been done in my head because camp went so well and the weight cut went so well. "Everything went so well that I thought I just needed to turn up and win. "And I knew what he was going to do. I knew he was going to come out guns blazing in the first because I knew he had that fear."
"He didn't hurt me with any punches but he got the flash knockdown. Even when he was in my guard and he was throwing heavy elbows and punches, I was just laughing. That's why he subbed me. I'm a tough person to put out.
"Backstage, I was too confident. I was just walking around and I wasn't really warming up. I was just ready to go in there and fight.
"Maybe, if I'm looking back, I should have warmed up and I should have been more aggressive backstage.
"I'm a weird person because sometimes backstage I'll warm up hard and be aggressive and then sometimes I'm just relaxed. I don't have the same ritual for every fight and this time it cost me.
"In my eyes, it cost me everything."Explore more on these topics: