I want to take him out. I want to finish him, but when you look for the knockout sometimes it doesn’t come, so I have to be smart. I’m going to have to fight my fight and take him out of his comfort zone, and by doing so he is going to make a mistake. The fight will end when he makes his first mistake.

I see fighting like a mathematics problem. When you have a mathematics problem you have a formula that you use to solve the problem. Dan Hardy is a problem, and I’m going to have to figure out which formula I’m going to use during the fight to solve the problem and that’s how it is... I think it’s also a question of statistics. If I fight against his strengths, my chances of winning diminish. If I fight against his weaknesses, my chances of winning go up.

Right now I’m about 190lbs. I’m bigger and I’m getting even bigger than I was, more powerful, and more explosive. I hit much harder. We have been working on a lot of different stuff to make me hit harder and to give me more power on my strikes. It’s going to change a lot of things.

I’m not satisfied about my ratio of knockouts. I have knockouts, but I want to bring my ratio up. I’m more powerful than I was, and by being more powerful I’m faster as well. Power is strength and speed together.