CagePotato.com: A lot of people seem like they’re still not buying you as the real WEC featherweight champ. Do you feel like you still need to prove that your win over Faber wasn’t just a fluke?

MB: No, I think I’ve proved it now. I mean, I read a lot on the internet, people saying it was a fluke and all that. But I think when I beat Garcia pretty quickly too, and almost in the same way since I hurt him with the right hand and then finished him off, then it was basically like a replay. That showed it wasn’t a one-time deal, that I could do this to good guys. Leonard had never been finished before so I was proud of being able to put him away.

Do you read about MMA on the internet a lot?

Yeah, I do. I go to the Underground a lot. I’m always on there. I read the good and the bad.

That seems like it could be counterproductive at times.

It’s fun. I have a website and I get a lot of positive emails and people saying nice things, but every once in a while I’ll get a really nasty, anonymous hate mail. It’s kind of funny. It’s almost like you really know you made it when you start getting hate mail, you know? I show it to my friends and it cracks them all up.

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