My whole idea, to me, is if you’re a heel in wrestling, you should not having a band playing for when you come out and people will react in a positive way.
I think the yearning for a different product is really strong. WWE hasn’t had any significant change since, what, 2001 in wrestling? WWE provides so much good content. Just good, wholesome content, but they’re still the only one.
In boxing, you don’t know what’s going to happen. In wrestling, it’s already prearranged.
I’m going to make an appearance in professional wrestling, but it won’t be for the WWE. If I put wrestling boots and wrestling trunks on one last time – and I’m going to – it’s going to be done by me and me only.
That is the thing that wrestling is, we are who we are. Even when we are established we are not actors. We are wrestlers.
Writing songs is kind of like a wrestling match to me. You have to pin it down and make it do what you want it to do.
To me, wrestling is therapy. No matter how bad my personal situation is, when I step into the ring, all my troubles disappear. My baggage stays in the back where it belongs.
I was pretty certain I’d stay in TV rather than returning to the feature world because the material just seems so much better in TV, especially in drama, but then ‘Crossface’ came my way. A heartbreaking, true story about the dark side of wrestling… I couldn’t say no to that.
Wrestling has taken me on a ride and a love affair. I absolutely enjoy wrestling.
Wrestling and horror just sort of go together.
I am a Division I All-American wrestler, but I wrestled college wrestling matches, seven minutes long. If I was to go in there and wrestle for seven minutes of a fight, a 25-minute fight, you’re not getting nothing out of me for the rest of the time.
By the time my attempt to acquire WCW fell apart and Time Warner decided they didn’t want anything remotely associated with wrestling near their networks, once that happened and really cut the cord, it was in my rear view mirror and didn’t care or think about it too much.
No one understands what it’s like to walk in the shadow of a famous father, let alone Ric Flair, in the wrestling industry.
‘Superstar’ Billy Graham was someone that my dad taught from A to Z, from tying up to submission wrestling. Billy was more of a showman than a wrestler. My dad used to love tying Billy in knots, and Iron Sheik would be watching.
Pro wrestling is what provided for my family.
I was a wrestling fan long enough, and once in a while, I would get bored. I’d be on board with a superstar and love what he’d do. Then eventually, I would get bored with him. I don’t want people to think that way of me, so I’m doing everything I can to make sure it doesn’t happen.
I’ve always liked watching wrestling, but once you are on the other end of it, you develop a certain passion for it and respect for it, and I would like to accomplish everything I want to before calling it quits.
My dad is not a sports guy but was drawn to the theatrics of wrestling.
That Evan Dunham fight, I went back to not being serious. I was going to the lake and literally brought some wrestling mats down with me. We have a shop at the lake where we park the boat. I’d throw the mats in there, wakeboard all day, and train all night. I was having a good time, getting back to work.
Obviously wrestling is a core component of MMA. And among UFC fighters, my take-down defence is considered quite high.
Wrestling is a business: the more promotions the better, more opportunities for wrestlers to work.
From a backstage perspective, one of the things I always tried to do in wrestling was maintain that I was Adam. Edge was a character.
I started training with Fabricio Itte with my wrestling and high performance; I started spending a lot more time with my head coach Henry Perez and also my grappling coach Alex Prates. Those three are my core team, and they’ve made hugely important changes and skill enhancements with my game.
I actually think that wrestling is much harder than MMA, to be honest.
I grew up in North Carolina, and I grew up on wrestling.
The Million Dollar Man was to professional wrestling what Ebenezer Scrooge is to Christmas. He was like a rich bully. He bullied everybody with his money, and his motto was ‘Everybody’s got a price.’
When I wasn’t wrestling, I got back into school a little bit. In Dallas, there was VIP Wrestling, and in Atlanta, AR Fox has a great school, so it’s good to get back in there and continue to learn.
Wrestling is cyclical. And if you look at the ’80s, it had an unbelievable run, and then it just fell down. ’90s had the biggest run ever because of the Monday Night Wars.
This whole wrestling world is a different breed, there’s no doubt.
When kids tune in and see Jordan Devlin, Trent Seven, Pete Dunne, Wolfgang on the WWE Network, and then they see a poster at the town hall for their local wrestling show, they’re gonna say, ‘Oh my God, that’s Pete Dunne. I wanna go see him.’
Most people aren’t familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.
My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
I grew up a wrestling fan, so to be doing what my ‘heroes’ were doing when I was a kid, it’s fun. I have fun out there.
I love wrestling, and of course WWE is the main stage, but I’m happy to be with TNA.
The majority of critics, I would say, are people who have no clue what they’re talking about and have never been in a wrestling ring. They’ve never been a public speaker. They wouldn’t even know how to lock up with me if I allowed them to.
I grew up watching wrestling my whole life, so to get the chance to step in the ring that I’ve watched on TV so many times is a dream come true.
I was drafted by the New Orleans Saints, and quite frankly, I got worn out playing football. I got tired of it. With wrestling, there were so many variables that could go with it, so many directions you could go. Every night, it was different. Every night. It was a different town 7 nights a week and twice on Sunday.
By starting a wrestling league, I hope to provide for wrestling the kind of visible and glamorous platform that the IPL has given to cricket.
There are many wrestlers in my mother’s family. So I guess I’ve inherited my love for wrestling from my mother’s side of the family.
I’m not scared to go to the ground. I’ve been wrestling my whole life. I’ve done a lot of jiu jitsu, but I like standing up, and every fight starts there.
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 nWo was the greatest time in professional wrestling because we were going into mixed stadiums like the Georgia Dome. That was one of the greatest times in pro wrestling and was the most profitable time in pro wrestling.
I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I’m sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.
I feel like once my career is all done and dusted, and I’ve done everything I could have possibly done, then that’s my glory. Then I can live, and have a normal life, and go have kids. I love wrestling, but when that day comes, I’m going back home and I’m starting a family.
Wrestling is ballet with violence.
After college, I never really knew what I wanted to do, so that’s why I got into professional wrestling.
From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
We, as a wrestling community, better remember it is more than one individual that makes a winner.
First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.
Wrestling is like any form of drama or pretty much any form of entertainment – some people understand this about forms of entertainment really intuitively when they’re younger, and others would have to be really not very intelligent for a long time until we realize that every human mood is an art.
In ECW, hardcore wrestling wasn’t done just for the fun of it. It was done for a purpose, for a reason. And for me, it was done to exist and produce a revenue for my family.
When you talk about people being haunted or wrestling demons, that is a rich metaphor.
Unfortunately, wrestling in India doesn’t have the same appeal for the youth that cricket and football do. For this reason, I want to also begin a series of wrestling academies across the country.
I love tag team wrestling. I’ve loved it my whole life.
Well, I’m wrestling alligators.
One thing about wrestling, it keeps you humble.
I never want to hide my wrestling background.
I love wrestling, and I love telling a story to the audience.
It is a privilege to be able to represent this sport and have a chance to share my love of Lucha with passionate wrestling fans around the globe.
I was getting a lot of good work with my wrestling up in Iowa, but I needed a more all-around game, striking, jiu-jitsu at a high level. I had a lot of good coaches out at ATT to work with. They pushed me. Everything was smarter. Everything was precise.
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules – politics has no rules.
All the times they put tag titles on me, Intercontinental titles on me, or the world title on me, the only time I couldn’t defend the title was when I had to forfeit the belt when I quit WCW and retired from wrestling forever.
