I am still very much rooted in what I really fell in love with, with sports entertainment and pro wrestling.
I use the right hemisphere of my brain and what I have is this advantage that makes me exceedingly interesting in pro wrestling.
I just like people that bring in a very competitive mentality to pro wrestling.
When you get to go out and perform on a great pro wrestling show, it's awesome. It's hard not to enjoy it.
Pro wrestling is so physical and taxing and just hurts your body; it's very aggressive entertainment.
I very much like the Japanese version of pro wrestling, probably the most.
For me, travel is one of the biggest perks of pro wrestling. You get to see the world on somebody else's dime.
If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there.
Voters never have to question where I stand - my principles or priorities. I am a pro-freedom, pro-America and pro-life conservative.
Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.
There's a certain kind of wrestling fan that will only like a certain style. They think that's the right way, and that's okay, but I'm not trying to impress those people. Those people are already kind of set in their ways. I'm trying to open the world to a different style, what pro-wrestling has the potential to be.
Pro wrestling fans love what they watch, and they go out to enjoy and have fun.
Not many fighters respect Chael Sonnen because he's in the wrong sport. He should be in pro-wrestling with a mouth like that.
Like most Americans, I am neither a Republican nor a Democrat. I am pro-future, pro-hope, and pro-abundance. I am pro-frontier and will talk to and work with anyone else who shares my belief that it is our goal and destiny to expand life and civilization into space.
Jericho uses tried and true, fundamental pro wrestling villain techniques to make him effective. He's a master in ring psychologist.
I'm pro-life. I'm pro-gun. I'm pro-family. And I'm pro-business.
I had a very humble upbringing, earned everything I got, and learned how challenging it is in the pro wrestling business.
There is nothing I love more than pro wrestling, so getting to do that all over the globe with some of the best out there is my personal heaven.
Fortunately for me, I do so well in pro wrestling that I don't have to go there and fight if they don't pay me what I was asking.
In professional wrestling, I think that they want you to be bigger than life. It's almost like an over-acting type thing - whereas on the big screen, you're 35 feet and they've got a close-up of you to put it on the screen in the movie house. At 35 feet, it's more subtlety than the overboard drama that we do in pro wrestling.
We have launched Champion's Pro Kushti to revive the passion for the game of wrestling in India, the country where it actually originated.
The interesting thing about film fighting is that it's very different to the kind of fighting we do in pro wrestling.
I can make a valid argument that Bobby Heenan is pro wrestling's great performer.
Strong style is a philosophy for Japanese wrestling fans that was created by New Japan Pro Wrestling founder Antonio Inoki. He wanted you to show every motion and show real technique in the ring. It's important to use real techniques from real life and real martial arts. The detail is important.
For sure yeah, Bullet Club is definitely synonymous with pro wrestling as a whole.
Pro wrestling is entertainment, but people get hurt all of the time.
I want people to say that Jack Swagger/Jake Hager is a world champion in MMA and in pro wrestling.
I think health-wise, pro-wrestling is probably ten times worse for you than MMA.
Whenever any Indian needs support to succeed in pro wrestling, I will always be there.
I was just lucky to be there ahead of the curve to be the driving force behind bringing this amazing style of wrestling from Japan that combined Lucha Libre, American professional wrestling, Canadian professional wrestling and Japanese wrestling all into one beautiful mix that fans worldwide absolutely can't get enough of.
If people are pro-Israel, they are pro-Israel one-hundred-and-twenty percent. If they are anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian, they tend to be pro-Palestinian one-hundred-and-twenty percent. I don't think a decent person has to choose between being pro-Israel and pro-Palestine. I think you have to be pro-Peace.
If there was a Mount Rushmore for pro wrestling cities, Chicago and New York would be on there. After that, it's debatable.
I spent so many years in MMA waving the banner for pro wrestling, telling fighters they had to be more entertaining.
That's the essence of pro wrestling to me, is the traveling, the road, going from Kalamazoo to the next random town.
I think pro wrestling doesn't seem to get a lot of mainstream attention until somebody dies.
I am me. I've always been a character, and my character's story lives into pro wrestling.
I do work incredibly hard. I eat, sleep, and breathe pro wrestling with all of my heart, and I'm always committed to giving this my all.
I'm going to show you how we do it in New Japan Pro Wrestling. That's what you get whenever I wrestle, whoever's in the ring with me.
I'm prairie-dwelling, pro-union, pro-health care, and pro-education.
Regardless of who leaves and who stays, Ring of Honor is going to continue to be a healthy, growing, successful pro wrestling promotion.
People love to be entertained and love the different storylines that go on in pro wrestling.
I've watched guys in pro wrestling actually die. It's very dangerous. It's very injury heavy.
If you speak pro wrestling or MMA, you almost speak any language.
If you do your history, pro wrestling is just the worked version of what MMA is.
There are many ways to do something right within the world of pro wrestling.
In my first fight, I acknowledged it. I'm a professional wrestler, this is who I am, who you know me as. But guess what, I've also been wrestling since I was 5 years old - real wrestling - amateur wrestling, Olympic wrestling.
Sprinkle in a bit of pro wrestling in MMA is good. You get the fans talking. They want that drama.
I thought the Rousey match was the best major league debut in the history of wrestling. They did the right thing at the right time at the right pace and took people on a roller coaster ride. That, to me, was a pro wrestling match. I couldn't find fault with it, except I wish that Ronda had come out with her game face on when she did her entrance.
I first started pro wrestling right after I got out of college at the University of Michigan, so I was in that frame of mind where I wanted to wrestle with my brother.
NXT is the part of the WWE that is about competition. It's not sports entertainment, it's the pro wrestling side and that's what we do.
Think about it - pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics - what is it? It's a choreographed performance that is judged.
Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it.
We look at MMA and working pro wrestling as one and the same, they're just two different sides of the coin.
I think if I'd never had found pro wrestling, I'd be a blue collar guy, working a 9-to-5 job.
The Bullet Club from the beginning was just a group of talented guys who were having fun together and tried to make pro wrestling as exciting as it can be.
Yes, pro wrestling is damaging on your body. It hurts.
I'm pro-choice, pro-affirmative action, pro-environment and pro-labor. I was either going to be the loneliest Republican in America or I was going to be a happy Democrat.
Every one of my positions cuts - out half the country. I'm pro-choice, I'm pro-gay rights, I'm pro-immigration, I'm against guns, I believe in Darwin.
I had never seen a Pro Wrestling ring until I was maybe around grade 11.
As everyone knows, things change in pro wrestling all the time. To try and expect what's going to happen in the future is just foolish to me.
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