What are some good tips for just before the fight?
I am all about relaxation. I am about keeping your mind relaxed. I believe in a relaxed mind is way more faster than a stress mind. So when I have people in my dressing room to tell me, you got to knock them out. They are the first ones to leave. So I do not have those guys in my dressing room. No one tells me what to do. No aggressiveness. No violence. Do not come to me and say, you know what he said to you yesterday. He said you were an asshole. Once they start doing that and start filling my mind with anger. Once your anger comes in it is uncontrollable. Anger is not a good thing. You cannot control anger. You have to stay relaxed, relaxed, relaxed. So I listen to relaxing music and most of the time we play games in the dressing room. Or I will take a nap. For some reason after 10 fights I started to do that in Japan and you know wake up an hour and a half before the fight. Start warming up. Have a real hard warm-up. This is very important. A lot of people, I want to have my second wind in the ring. I do not want to get in the ring and have the barrier that I had to climb over to go to the second wind. I work out like a madman in the dressing room. People telling all the time you got to stop. You are warm enough. But I do not believe them. I think you can go real hard and I trained so hard, at least six minutes. So I have the energy. I am not worried about that. The thing to do once you walk to the ring, I would say, see if you can cancel all the people around you in the ring. That is one of my gifts. I truly believe that is my gift for me, because it keeps you calm if shut everybody up. I listen to his corner and my corner. I just focus on those two corners and that is it.
