“The featherweights must beg now. They must beg for pardon, beg for forgiveness. If that's the case, if they apologize and beg, I'll leave the division. I won't terrorize them anymore. They can have their division back. They can go back to being on the prelims and I'll go to the lightweight division.”
UFC 189 world tour: LA media scrum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk4GeTP7Iss (March 2015), MMA Fighting
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