UFC Fight Night: Dillashaw vs. Cruz Media Day

I am a working-class person, come from a working-class family and working-class background. Just a local kid from the northeast of England. My parents put me into martial arts when I was very young, and I just adapted to it really well. I loved it. It’s always something I wanted to do with my life from a very young age.

And I’ve not been one of these type of people that’s had things handed to or gifted to them; I’ve had to work my ass off for everything I’ve got. I still do today. And that’ll never change; that’s just the type of person I am. That’s the reason why I fight the way I do, and it means so much to us.

My heart is everything. I leave it all out on the line. Win, lose or draw – I give one hundred percent. I don’t not turn up – it doesn’t matter who it is, where it is, what’s going on in camp. Good camp, bad camp. You wake up on the morning and you feel terrible – don’t matter. I’m still turning up to fight.

And that’s just who I am. I appreciate all the fans and everyone that turns out to the fight. I’m a working-class guy, you know? I come from when I couldn’t afford to go buy a ticket to the UFC when the UFC came to Newcastle Arena where I’m from. I couldn’t afford to go buy a ticket and watch, you know?

So that to me means a lot: that I’m fighting on this big show now, and there’s people out there who are like me who wants to be where I am – and can’t afford tickets to come watch me fight. It means everything for me to go out there on the big stage and give everyone everything that I’ve got.

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