Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Artem Lobov

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Artem Lobov is a Russian former professional mixed martial artist and boxer based in Ireland, who previously competed in the Featherweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and who has most recently competed in the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship. A professional since 2010, Lobov was also a cast member of The Ultimate Fighter: Team McGregor vs. Team Faber, he has competed for the ACB, Ultimate Fighting Championship as well as the British promotions Cage Warriors and Cage Contender. Fighting out of Dublin, he is a member of SBG Ireland.

Russian - Mixed Martial Artist | Born: August 11, 1986

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For me it's my biggest sporting achievement being Conor McGregor's sparring partner.

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Boxing is stuck in the past.

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I just couldn't turn down the money Bare Knuckle FC were throwing at me, so I ended up signing with them.

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I feel I have the necessary skills to compete with the best, I wouldn't have even aimed for the UFC if I didn't think I did.

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When you fight someone, it's different. It's a lot of conflict that you can have. Once you fought somebody, that's it. There's not much to it anymore. You went in there, you settled it like men, one on one, and that's it. After that, I don't think there's really a point to kind of carry it with you, any of that negativity.

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I want to fight everyone. Weight makes no difference when it comes to who I want to fight.

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At the end of the day, you have to get finishes. If you want to be successful in this industry that's what you need.

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Being able to train nothing but boxing for a full year made me a much better boxer as I brought in professional boxers helped me make a lot of gains.

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The Irish and Russian communities are huge in New York, so this is truly one of the only places where I can fight in front of all of my fans.

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Whether it's in the UFC or elsewhere, you need to be winning in this sport.

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Any of the shows I've ever fought on, they always want to have me back because I always have the fight of the night performance.

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I never pull out of the fights.

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I was absolutely honored to be invited to the Kremlin. It has been a dream of mine ever since I was a kid.

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I truly love fighting, so how can there be pressure for me when I absolutely love it?

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At the end of the day, we all need competitors otherwise there are no fights.

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I said this before, for me I will always respect the fighter that shows up.

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Born in Russia, forged in Ireland, they don't make them like this anymore.

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At the end of the day, fans make the show. If there's no one watching, then there's no one paying, then we don't earn any money, then what's the point?

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If a fight happens between Conor and Khabib in Russia, the support would be divided between them. It would be 50-50.

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To me, KSW is a huge promotion and it's on my list of one of the things I want to do as an MMA fighter. I think that goes for any European fighter.

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I think against Cub I get it done. He comes in, he's very open, he throws wild shots, and he has never, I promise you, in his life felt power that I have.

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I was not released by the UFC.

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I always make sure that I'm good to do business with.

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Whether I like them or I don't like them, it makes no difference for me. Whoever is standing across the cage from me, that's who is going to go down.

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When you don't have to worry about the financial side, you can truly concentrate on the craft. You can truly concentrate on the fights you really want to have. You have that freedom and it's extremely important especially when you have a family and you have to provide.

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Don't get me wrong, I'm very thankful for UFC.

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What Aldo is good at is the leg kicks, that's what oppened a lot of doors for him. He would land those leg kicks, and then the shot would come from there, but in terms of his hands, he doesn't have, I mean he has power, of course he does, but nowhere near the power that I have, I promise you that.

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Look, I always say this, 99 percent of people in the UFC would be gone if they have made $100 million.

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I want to be able to take fights across multiple sports and one of the main reasons is I really want the Tukhugov fight. I want to be able to accept that should that call come.

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More and more Russians started watching the UFC when Conor came along. The more they watched, the more they understood it.

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There is such a thing as building a fight, that's no problem, we're going into fight each other. That takes certain levels of intensity that you have to have. You're going in there to hurt the guy and he's going to do the same to you so that's understandable.

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Conor knows how to fight and he knows how to box. He has been boxing professional boxers for his whole life, he has had almost 50 amateur boxing fights.

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I can take a punch.

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When I first fought in K-1, I knocked out a guy in two minutes.

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Whenever someone has an unorthodox approach, different to what a standard boxer would look like, they write it off as being bad. They never seem to look at the normal approach to boxing and think that it might be slightly outdated.

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A personality like Conor's appeals to the Russian people a lot. He's always ready to go, he knocks people out and he's tough.

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I've said it before, me and Conor are very, very good friends, and he's certaintly helped me get into the UFC, you know, it is what it is, it makes no difference.

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I pride myself on having the most exciting fights ever.

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I'm a learner and I'm a go-getter.

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Let's be honest here - 99 percent of MMA fans haven't got a clue what's going on. They don't understand the game enough to comment on any of that. They don't know how easy it is to have an impressive record. I could have 10 guys in my gym tomorrow, beat them all up, and there's 10 wins for my record. It is that easy. It is that easy to be 10-0.

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I absolutely love the fight game.

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Obviously UFC was one of those kind of dreams that we weren't sure if we were ever going to reach, so for us, the biggest belt was the Cage Contender belt.

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In Russia, the people have been brought up tough. It used to be the Soviet Union. The thing everybody thinks of when they think about Russia is how tough the people are.

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It's called the Ultimate Fighting Championship and people pay to come and see the fights.

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I always show up. I always make weight.

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I'm able to do it a lot better outside the UFC than when I was in the UFC.

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Honestly, I'm destroying people in sparring, but for some reason I haven't been able to show my full potential in the UFC.

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This is the fight game, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

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Your record is where you've been, but it's not necessarily where you are or where you're going. That just shows that I've had a tough road.

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I want to be able to take fights on short notice.

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I've taken fights when others wouldn't.

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They should bring up my record, and call it the fighter bible. The warrior bible. All those guys with padded records should read it everyday, and they should put my picture on their wall as the Jesus Christ of MMA.

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Many MMA fighters have tried boxing before, even just sparring for a few rounds, but no boxer has done MMA rounds. There's just no way for them to do that.

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It's not just boxing I'm considering, it's K-1 too. That's something I've always liked.

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In times of war, my brothers never let me down.

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Having your hands up doesn't stop you from getting knocked out and there are a lot of advantages to having your hands down. It's also more exciting because it looks very impressive from the fans' perspective, which is a big factor in the entertainment business.

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Artur Sowinksi is a fight that I want to put right for a long time - that win was stolen from me. His friend was the promoter, a Polish promoter at the time and he overturned it, but that's a win in my mind - it was a win that was stolen from me.

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With the kind of power that I have - no one hits as hard as I do in the featherweight division.

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For me, when someone is able to beat me, that's the guy that I want to spar with.

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I think there is a big difference between real people and Internet people. Real life people understand that this is a sport.

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