Top 35 Pete Dunne Quotes

I was getting loads of tweets from people saying that Shawn Michaels had talked about me on Chris Jericho’s podcast and then I got to meet Shawn Michaels when I was over in Florida.

A lot of people ask do I want to do NXT, or do I want to do main roster. I would love to be able to start something new and build a UK brand that we can all be proud of.

I can carry a brand. I did it in the UK with an entire brand basically built around me, and my in-ring work speaks for itself.

I’m boring but I just love a wrestling match.

I’ve been able to travel the world and represent WWE, and have that stability of being part of that one company.

I think a lot of wrestling revolves around the bodybuilding-type perspective on nutrition, whereas I have a different approach; I’m way more focused on longevity and making sure I get those micronutrients in and eating a bunch of organic good as often as I can.

I personally haven’t heard anything, but WWE haven’t exactly been quiet about the fact that their aim is to do a full time UK brand show. They have been quite open about that from the start.

I started in an asbestos filled room on some thin judo mats and the first time I was in a ring was my first match. We did shows for 50 people and were pleased with that.

It’s always been the way in Britain. I’m not sure what it is, but it’s always been a cliche over here that we start wrestling from about 10-years-old. I’m really glad that I got the opportunity because it’s given me a massive head-start.

I wanted to work for WWE once and I wanted to make a living off of wrestling. They were my goals and I managed to achieve all of that by the age of 22, which then opened a whole new set of goals going forward.

Yeah I feel like British wrestling deserves a bigger chance and everyone will see that when it’s on the WWE Network. People will realise not just in England, but in all the different countries here, there is a lot of talent.

At independent shows the crowd are very involved and it’s about interacting with the live audience. With WWE that’s less important and it’s more about portraying your character and getting it across to as many people as possible.

In the UK brand, I would personally like to have a continued rivalry with Mark Andrews, he’s always my favorite opponent and if I could do that in different stages with WWE then I would be really happy.

It’s great to be part of Survivor Series and getting the chance to do that. At the same time I want NXT to stand out on its own.

For myself and Tyler Bate to go out there and show what we can do in front of an audience that probably isn’t that familiar with what we do, I’m grateful.

I’ve been vegan about, I think it’s like three or four years now. So when I first went vegan, I remember saying it’s a lot better and feeling like it. I’ve been vegan for so long, though, that I can’t really remember how much of a difference it would make.

I started wrestling in Coventry in a run-down community centre just on mats, we didn’t even have a ring.

The old style of British wrestling is a lot different than the American style, and that’s what I was trained in. It’s a lot more technical; it’s something that even someone that young has the capacity to start learning.

I’ve always had the mindset, even on independent shows, that even if the audience knew who I was, I was treating it as if they didn’t. Every time I want to teach them who I am and show them what I’m about.

I have a soft spot for those wrestlers who used to bounce around different territories, if you want to use that word, or different parts of the world.

I don’t worry about making enemies with what I do. This is all just business to me.

From my standpoint, I feel like I’m at the start of my career, I’m only 23-years-old but I have been doing it for 10 years.

I think I’ll always be homesick. Even though Orlando is amazing and the sun’s always out, I’ll always miss Birmingham. I don’t know what it is.

William Regal is an obvious influence, as is Fit Finlay – you can see that in my style of wrestling – but I try not to copy too much of what I see now as that was part of my problem early on.

When I started wrestling, WWE was a light at the end of the tunnel that no-one thought they could ever get to. Especially being British, only one or two people ever got there.

NXT has been great to me. I love being able to wrestle the way I want to wrestle and be who I want to be. NXT is this amazing platform to do that.

I’d love to do WrestleMania – if it was possible I’d love to defend the UK Title at WrestleMania, and who knows – in a few years’ time, whether I’m the first British WWE Champion, or maybe the second or third, that’s definitely a goal that I’d like to achieve.

I thought I could go and make a bigger name for myself on the independents and possibly in Japan, places like that.

For me, I’ve wrestled since I was 12 years old, so I’ve never had time off or been injured.

Obviously I’m really busy, fitting in WWE stuff and appearances like this now, all the events I’ve done and the SmackDown tours, then travelling. I’ve just been to Singapore, I’ve been to Canada… all over the world.

I always tried to be the good guy and emulate what my favourite wrestlers were doing – people like AJ Styles – but my character started to click when I became bad.

My main focus is performance. I want to put on better matches in the ring and stay injury-free, so it’s not about aesthetics.

I’m an advocate for being full-blown vegan. That’s my ideal way that I would love people to live, but the key to it is eating as little processed foods and a more whole foods-type diet as possible.

When we travel every weekend and we’re out in these different towns, seeing the numbers that show up and how into the shows they are, I love the fact that we get to travel around and bring NXT to these fans in different towns that love what we do.

I want to move along and become the biggest star in WWE. I don’t really care who it angers along the way, to be honest. It’s no concern of mine, really.