He's coming up but he got bigger and stronger, that plus the athleticism. I'm going to have to show him that we're just as athletic in the middleweight division as [they are] in the welterweight division. I think he'll do good in the division but I'm glad I get to welcome him to middleweight.
I want to prove I'm the best junior middleweight in the world.
Becoming world champion is something I have worked at for my entire career. It doesn't matter to me that my first title shot is at a different weight. The opportunity is at super-middleweight and I am going to take it. But that doesn't mean I am forever going to be restricted to the super-middleweight division. I've still got a lot of work to do, a lot of unfinished business at middleweight.
I'm going to win the belt at middleweight and I'm going to go up to 205 and win the belt there after I dominate the middleweight division for a little bit - that will happen.
There are major fights for me in the middleweight division. Those are the fights I want and I've been very vocal about it.
Middleweight is the best division in the UFC, in MMA in my opinion.
I'm the best Crusierweight, X Division, Junior Heavyweight wrestler whatever you want to call it.
George Foreman is back and he's in the middleweight division. That's the way I feel about fighting in my hometown.
The UFC want me as their champion. The welterweight division needs me as its champion. It's been static for too long. I'll win the title, defend it a couple of times, and then move up to middleweight.
I wouldn't say that I'm the most avoided man in boxing, but a few guys might avoid me in the middleweight division.
I'm interested in any light-middleweight. If they've got a belt, even if they think they're the hardest in the division, I can beat all of them.
I tried my best to ensure I kept the respect for the middleweight division in the tradition of Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake La Motta.
The middleweight division is one of the most exciting divisions in the sport. Fighters can punch like heavyweights and have the speed of the lightweights. You have the best of world worlds.
I'm done fighting at welterweight. Unless they open up a 175-pound division, I'm moving up to middleweight.
I like Sergio Martinez. I think he's strong, he's gritty, he's got plenty of heart, he's not the fanciest guy you might have seen in boxing but he has the goods to be around a long time in the Middleweight division.
Gennady Golovkin is a small middleweight, I'm a big super-middleweight. The fight was maybe talked about a year after I retired and it was never going to happen.