Robert Whittaker

Obviously, that's the thing any athlete wants to be able to do, to take weaknesses and turn them into strengths.

When I made the UFC, everyone said, 'You need to go overseas.' I thought I had to go as well, and I went to Tristar Gym, and I was there for one or two years. But changes were needed. I'd come off back-to-back losses - Court McGee and Stephen Thompson - and I needed to look at my roots and go back to the drawing board.

When you ask a guy, 'Are you gonna take a fight if your opponent doesn't make weight?' Is it really asking? Does he really have a choice? When you back them into a corner like that, is there really a choice to be made?

Michael Bisping versus Georges St-Pierre is a money fight, and the UFC loves money fights.

I actually think that wrestling is much harder than MMA, to be honest.

I'm a striker. That's what I enjoy doing. And any chance to display that, I'm happy.

I don't think you ever get used to being away from home.

Everyone knows I like to fight injured. Half the fights I've taken, I've always been injured.

Everyone thinks Australia and New Zealand MMA fighters don't have that wrestling base, whereas a lot of Americans and other countries have, with them being able to do wrestling at high-school levels.

I was born in New Zealand, and I was raised in Australia, and I'm very proud of that.

Fighter, father, husband - it's all the same person. I know the UFC stereotype is that we're all thugs. But I'd like people to know that I don't have to switch one off to try to be another. Being a father and a fighter, it's who I am.

I'm definitely driven to go as far as I can.