Donald Cerrone is a man who always turns up for a fight.

Having fought four times each year since 2013, Cerrone has entered the Octagon sixteen times in the past four years and this Saturday he gets his first fight of 2017 under his belt when he faces Jorge Masvidal in the co-main event of UFC on Fox 23.

Speaking to Luke Thomas earlier this week on Sirius XM, Cerrone revealed the state of his health and what it would actually take for him to be forced out of a fight.

“I wouldn’t say I’m healthy,” Cerrone joked. “Most those fights I’m pretty injured and beat up on man. Whenever anyone asks me how banged up or injured I am, I just remind them how far that pain is away from my heart and say let’s get it done.”

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Asked what it would take for Cerrone to get pulled from a fight, his answer was exactly what you’d expect.

“Probably missing a leg or an arm,” Cerrone said laughing.

He then spoke about dealing with obtaining licenses to fight from athletic commissions. Cerrone suggested that it’d never been a problem and that fighters could somewhat blag their way through the medical checks that are carried out before fights.

“Yeah, but they’d never do that,” Cerrone said when asked whether a commission could refuse him a license to fight. “I would just never tell them [he was banged up]. My answers are always the same—I feel great.

“When they come in to check on us and see how we are feeling I always say that I couldn’t feel better—I feel great. They examine you and grab your knees and grab your hands—there is a process. You just got to bury your head down and tell them you feel great.”

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“And I do. Being injured has never stopped me from fighting and it’s been fine. Nothing is ever broken you know, it just hurts and hurt is ok. I feel great.”

This weekend, Cerrone returns to his home state of Colorado to fight for the first time since 2012. Cerrone was born in Ohio, but grew up in Columbus. Having targeted fighting on the card even before his last fight with Matt Brown at UFC 206 last month, Cerrone was relishing the prospect of returning home and fighting in front of his own people.

“This is home for me, absolutely,” Cerrone said. “I love it, I love fighting at home. I’m undefeated [in Colorado] and this is what I love to do baby. Doing what I love in front of the people I love—why not?

“This is what I do and I’m here to do it. I’m here to dance baby, that’s all I’m here to do.”