A fighter’s ego, for better or for worse, plays an important part in how his career develops. In order to rise to the top of the combat sports food chain, one must have an unshakeable self belief coupled with the technical ability to overcome the best of the rest. Over the years we have seen many proclaim themselves to be the greatest, while only a select few ever realise their ambition of achieving that status. More often than not those affirmations of confidence have turned out to be delusions of grandeur, but on very rare occasions they can turn out to be prophetic.