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Incorporated into his training for his UFC 130 fight against Matt Hamill, Quinton “Rampage” Jackson takes to the pool for swimming. He uses it to work up his cardio. There’s just one problem: he can’t float.

Rampage recently said he wasn’t thrilled at the prospect of facing Hamill, seen as something of a gatekeeper in the UFC’s light heavyweight division. But in his UFC conference call, Rampage said he has been extremely motivated.

“My main motivation is to win, but I think Matt made a mistake when he said he’s going to break my will and I’m going to overlook him,” Rampage said. That lit a fire up under my ass. That made me train a little bit harder so I can break his will, and make sure I can outclass him.”

“Honestly in the beginning, fighting him, I wasn’t 100 percent motivated as I would be vs. someone who had beaten me before or something like that. But when he said that, that motivated me as much as I’ve been motivated in a fight.”