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Training with Billy Robinson is just like any martial artist who would go to the old master of the art. He’s so knowledgeable.
In sports entertainment, you can take your time and digest what’s going on along with the audience.
One thing I’ve learned is that a lot of fans’ knowledge starts and stops with the UFC.
Cris Cyborg is one of the best in the world, and there is no shame in losing to her.
I’ve always said the thing about MMA that a lot of fighters don’t understand is people care more about the story, about why a fight’s happening, than the actual fight.
I do a lot of crazy stuff. People that have watched me know my grappling game is of the regular map that you’d see in a jiu-jitsu class.
Everything I’ve gotten, I’ve had to work twice as hard to earn.
‘Final Fantasy VII’ is my favorite video game, and I had a conversation on Up Up Down Down, and I don’t wanna say who is my favorite character, but my default would be Sephiroth.
Changing over to the UFC, I was trying to force myself to thinking, like, ‘This was it; this is the most important thing.’
Look at something like boxing. People know that some fights are fixed, but nobody looks at a boxing match and automatically assumes it’s fake.
I think, at every professional wrestler’s heart, there’s a fan.
I’m being more physical and aggressive while, at the same time, I’m not being overwhelmed by strong fighters like Sara McMann.
I’ve played basketball, and I’ve stood at the free-throw line with a tie game and 0.2 seconds left. But there is no feeling in the world like being in that ring when they close it up and ask, ‘Are you ready?’
You know how you defeat chaos? You suck the air out of it and put it to sleep.
Waving the banner of my coaches is a heavy flag to wield, so it’s something I take very serious.
If I could have had the opportunity to be a full-time fighter while I was one of the best in the world, what could I have done then?
It’s weird how America works. Healthy food costs way more than crap.
It’s interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study.
I think that Ronda and I had similar paths in MMA; she became a bigger star than I ever was, but a similar thing happened, where the backlash from the fans happened after you slip up once kind of makes you fall out of love with it.
Because I’ve been around the MMA block a little bit, I’m at a point now where I just want bodies to beat up. I’m past the point in my career where I’m picking and choosing.
It’s not like I was saying, ‘Oh, I want to make it to the UFC one day,’ because the sport wasn’t big enough then that a guy could have this as his job.
I had a little gut check, and ultimately, I grew up as far as my MMA mentality and am more mature now.
I think seeing me cross over to pro wrestling and having fun – I get up in the morning, and I’m not a morning person. My alarm goes off, and I’m back out and training again.
Catch wrestling is pro wrestling, if you look at the ground moves and the rule set. It’s just about learning the art of it for yourself.
Look, it doesn’t matter who you put in front of me or how many girls out of that locker room you want to throw at me. I’m taking them all out – and never losing this title.
If you do your history, pro wrestling is just the worked version of what MMA is.
Ronda’s a natural athlete. Just learning a different rule set and bringing what she has from MMA would be the same: does her judo translate to MMA, will her MMA translate to pro wrestling? She’s been pretty successful one way, and I think she’ll be pretty successful the other way.
Who says what is the right way and what isn’t? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.
It’s hard to simulate the things that I do.
I love rock and roll and loved getting on wrestling mats since I was six, and I have never been ashamed of it.
WWE is something I’ve had my eye on.
In MMA, there isn’t time to admire your work until it’s all over with. In sports-entertainment, I can admire what I’m doing while it’s happening.
I was going to school; I was working – at one point, I had two jobs – and I was still trying to train and fight.
