As a fighter, how does Cain differ from your previous opponents?

Cain is, for sure, going to be my biggest challenge. He’s fast. He has excellent stamina. His cardio’s out of control. He’s got phenomenal takedowns and a really impressive ground game.

To be honest, he’s a really complete fighter and fast, unlike most heavyweights. I believe strongly that he’s going to be my biggest and most challenging challenge to date. I hope that I’m going to be the same to him; I hope that I’ll be his biggest challenge to date, as well.

Conventional wisdom suggests that the highest-percentage strategy for Cain revolves around taking you down. How do you keep him from controlling you on the ground with his wrestling?

For sure, Cain’s going to try to take me down. I would agree with you that that would be the conventional wisdom.

In my game, I always look for the knockout. I’m going to look for it against Cain. I would love to knock out Cain Velasquez.

But I’m going to be ready for wherever the fight winds up. The truth is, you guys haven’t really seen my ground game yet.

If Cain Velasquez takes me down 10 times, I’m going to get up 10 times. I’m not sure Cain is going to be able to take 10 of my punches.