A biography for Artem Lobovhasn’t been written yet.
“I can take a punch.”
“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.”
“Fighting Paulie Malignaggi in bare-knuckle is not a challenge for me.”
“I have my reasons to fight every single guy on the UFC roster.”
“It's not just boxing I'm considering, it's K-1 too. That's something I've always liked.”
“I pride myself on having the most exciting fights ever.”
“I love fighting. It gives me a cheque to pay for my food and for my accommodation and that's great but I just love to fight.”
“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.”
“Once you're inside that Octagon, it's one-on-one. Your skill versus his skill. Your heart versus his heart.”
“The thing everybody thinks of when they think about Russia is how tough the people are. When they see a fighter continuously pulling out, that's something that they really don't like. Then they look at a guy like Conor who always shows up and does what he says he's going to do. That really resonates with the Russian public.”
“If a fight happens between Conor and Khabib in Russia, the support would be divided between them. It would be 50-50.”
“My attitude is that I just never give up. I've been choked out twice and had my arm broken in a fight but I've never tapped.”
“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.”
“I feel Alex White is exactly the type of guy I always talk about, with an undeserved, padded record. There's many, many of them in the UFC, because this is the easy way in.”
“I want to fight everyone. Weight makes no difference when it comes to who I want to fight.”
“For me it's my biggest sporting achievement being Conor McGregor's sparring partner.”
“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.”
“There's a reason why MMA is only three five-minute rounds, or five fives when it's a title fight. MMA is so much more demanding on the body - the wrestling, the changing levels, all that takes a lot out of you. Boxing is a breeze for us after MMA.”
“I think there is a big difference between real people and Internet people. Real life people understand that this is a sport.”
“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.”