A Quote by Callum Smith
You can be world champion, but ranked No 6 in the world, with there being four champions.
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I'm not bothered about where I'm ranked in the world. I'm just worried about fighting the best people in the world and being a natural, original champion.
I'm here at Madison Square Garden as world champion and have a world champion's mentality, the pressures on to defend my belt - this is what champions do.
I never started in boxing to be a British champion or a world champion. There are loads of world champions in Britain, and if you mention them to someone out there on the street, nobody knows who they are.
You can win a world title now ranked as seven, eight or nine in the world, and say you are a champion, because you have a version of it.
Obviously, if you're able to become a two division world champion - not many are world champions in their life or their career. I have the opportunity to do this.
Being the undisputed world champion is a relief. We instituted a unified chess title, I am the absolute world champion.
I was world's champion in every aspect of the life. Whether it was sitting in a steak house eating a steak or getting onto the edge of the ring with two or three people standing there, it was all the same to me. I was world's champion, and for that reason, I was world's champion.
It's in my dreams, being champion and staying champion and being one of the major champions in the sport.
The great World Champions Morphy, Steinitz, and Lasker were past masters in the art of Pawn play; they had no superiors in their handling of endgames. The present World Champion has not the strength of the other three as an endgame player, and is therefore inferior to them.
The ultimate goal for me is to be the world champion - it's all I've wanted to do since I was a kid - so when the money that comes with it is life-changing, yes, that's nice, but get The Ring magazine belt, being considered the world champion, is something money can't buy.
There's different kind of champions. There's the champion that becomes champion and they're not champion for long. And then you have the guy who becomes champion and he stays at the top for like a decade. And those fighters tend to be very intelligent.
When you have a World Champion in your smartphone, the myth of the superior brainpower of human chess champions has lost its power.
To me, being heavyweight world champion and Olympic sprint champion are the two greatest prizes in sport.
At the end of the day I'm still a four-time world champion at four different weight classes and I'll still be in the history books.
The reality is we are still ranked 10th and we are playing a team ranked second in the world who are playing at the top of their game and are at home.
I'm world champion, so if I'm not ready for another fighter at 154, I don't deserve to be world champion. That's the way I look at it and what I firmly believe.
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