Tito: The next step, of course it’s Hollywood

“What’s my next step? You know. As being a fighter I’ve done my job defending my lightheavyweight world title longer than anybody has ever reigned. What’s the next step?”

“Business wise you know I have done great with Punishment. I opened my gym, Punishment Training Center. My supplement line Punishment Nutrition and its one of those things that what’s the next step.”

“I think there’s no other guy who could talk about fighters better than I can. Maybe Joe Rogan. But as a fighter coming from a fighter’s mind and a fighter’s spirit, as these guys what they put in their heartwise into the ring or into the cage I dont think anyone can descript it better than I can.”

“Of course there’s an opportunity for me (‌in Hollywood). I think it’s the producer and director giving me an opportunity that I’ve never had. I’m still a young kid, you know, I’ve been fighting for this game for almost 15 years now. And you know the next step, of course it’s Hollywood. Of course it’s getting into movies but doing the right thing.

“Doing the acting classes, that’s really mandatory. All the biggest actors in the world, you know, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, they still do acting classes, it’s mandatory. You gotta do those things and that’s what it comes down to. And you have to do them five days a week.

“It’s just like training. When I go into something head first, I have to make sure I go 100-percent and that’s what it comes down to. And that’s really doing the acting classes. If I want to be an actor, I gotta do acting classes. You’re not going to be a fighter by just doing classes a couple times a week. You gotta be a fighter 100-percent, that’s what I put my life in, so if I want to be an actor, I gotta do the same thing too.”

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Tito has already started to make good on his goal. The People’s Champion will guest star on CSI: NY this Friday (Jan. 6, 2012) at 10pm ET on CBS.