All the things I talk about are true, but some of them I may tweak a little bit. A lot of it is the way I feel about wrestling. When you have a character like mine, you can push the envelope and go far with some of the issues.
My favorite Swamp Thing stories have always been about a man wrestling with monsters both internal and external.
Everything about me is favored towards wrestling.
For me, wrestling was an escape. It was like a way out.
At the end of the day, I look at it like this: pro wrestling is really hard on the performers, the luchadoras, and any time a performer is in a position to do something good for themselves and make money, I’m always happy to see that happen.
Philadelphia is kind of like a Mecca for professional wrestling, especially the old ECW Arena down in South Philly. That’s the place I always wanted to wrestle growing up, and I got that opportunity when I worked with Ring of Honor.
I don’t have the same knack for the business end that my old man did. Recruiting people has been tough. I don’t envy anyone in that spot, especially some of the great non-WWE promoters like ‘Evolves’ Gabe Sapolsky, Beyond Wrestling’s Drew Cordeiro, or Markus Mac at All Pro Wrestling.
I have so many great memories of the wrestling business. I’ve worked real hard to get to the top, and how many flukes and breaks to have happened that had allowed me to have the success that I did.
You want to give the fans all the sides to women’s wrestling.
Calgary prides itself on being a wrestling town.
I vigorously train in my jui jitsu and my wrestling, but my stand-up game gives me a huge advantage in defending take-downs.
Growing up in wrestling – and I have been involved in wrestling, really, my entire life – I learned right from the get-go that you never forget your fans. They are the ones that put your food on the table and pay your bills.
Wrestling is in my blood.
I am already in a couple Hall of Fames, like the Michigan Hall of Fame and the Dan Gable Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame, so my accolades speak for themselves. Let’s just say I’m not losing any sleep over any Hall of Fame induction.
Football is my base; that’s where I learned to be tough. I was a strong safety, and that’s what I do: I hit people. The mentality is football, the wrestling is precision.
In pro wrestling, it’s fake. People always get offended by that word. ‘No, we like to say it’s pre-determined.’ For whatever reason, people get angry at ‘fake’; ‘pre-determined’ eases the blow? It’s fake. At the end of the day, it doesn’t really mean anything.
If you’re holding a championship that means something in the landscape of Japanese wrestling, you’re guaranteed to get a huge feature in almost every magazine – you might even be guaranteed a front page. That’s big.
That is one of the coolest things about WWE and wrestling in general. The fans have this very unique voice and this very unique power, and in no other sport and no other form of entertainment can the fans make their voices heard and it effect change.
Sprinkle in a bit of pro wrestling in MMA is good. You get the fans talking. They want that drama.
I was very active in college. I wanted to play athletics, and then I looked at wrestling as being a viable option to do that.
When you’re in that upper echelon in wrestling, any movie you take is gonna be a pay cut. If you’re gone for three months and they pay you 150 grand, you’re getting killed.
I watched wrestling for the first time on television while in Punjab, after which I started working seriously to become a good wrestler.
There’s a lot on my plate, but the cool thing is everything that I’m doing I’m really into. I love ‘Lucha Underground.’ I love Impact. I love wrestling every weekend all over the world.
The most important thing about being in wrestling is that you have to connect with the crowd, connect with the fans, and you either want them to love you, or to hate you. Either way, so long as they’re reacting to what you’re doing.
I am focusing on entertainment because entertainment is the best way to promote sports in India. And wrestling can benefit a lot through entertainment. That’s why I am trying my best to juggle between wrestling and entertainment.
Edge was part of my fascination with KISS and Cheap Trick and Queen, mixed with wrestling.
That’s why I love wrestling: because there’s so many different people. I love everybody, from Hornswoggle to the Great Khali to Seth Rollins, to The Bludgeon Brothers. I love everything about wrestling because of that.
Wrestling school was probably one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. It just killed me.
I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
It’s so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibility for it, and speak up and say, This isn’t right; this isn’t me.’ It’s a great lesson, not just in wrestling but in life. If you’re not feeling something that’s true to your heart… everybody’s gotta be true.
I grew up watching wrestling.
Wrestling is a very serious subject for me.
All you need to do is look down at my boots. My pro wrestling boots that I’ve worn for the past year have the Triforce symbol from ‘Legend of Zelda’ on them.
Wrestling is something that nothing else can replace for me.
NXT fans are hardcore wrestling fans.
Wrestling is truly my life, and I love being part of the professional wrestling world.
McGregor is a businessman through and through. He’s obviously a wrestling fan.
After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack’s Car, but that didn’t last.
The hard part for me was not the wrestling – it was showing emotion, telling a story, and being able to connect with fans. Coming out as Ric Flair’s daughter and being called athletically gifted, it’s hard to say, ‘Hey, like me! You can relate to me!’ It wasn’t working, so I completely switched my character.
Wrestling is just a different beast. There is no off-season in WWE. It’s week in and week out.
The level of difficulty in most areas of MMA is very high. It’s a high learning curve. The footwork in boxing alone takes years to master. I will rely heavily on my amateur wrestling to get out of bad situations and take me from defense to offense. I’ll try to dictate the fight on my terms.
I’m good at professional wrestling, and I always will be good, but what’s always been different about me is that I can’t completely focus on professional wrestling.
Wrestling has gotten crazy lately in that guys can really make comfortable, good livings outside of WWE.
If you’ve never been to a live wrestling show, you need to go to one. To understand ‘Lucha Underground,’ you need to watch it.
One thing that is very exciting and unpredictable about professional wrestling is that anything can happen.
I worked in the World Wrestling Federation for three years.
I do feel in 2018 that pro wrestling has gone in such a different direction. Before, things were so black and white; now, it’s shades of grey. It’s not so much good guys and bad guys: there are people who are put in situations who do the right or wrong things, but people react to them like they are stars.
I think tag team wrestling is every bit as exciting, if not more exciting than singles competition.
Memphis is like the heart of wrestling.
I used to work on Blackpool Pleasure Beach when I started wrestling.
You’re speechless sometimes when you think of the support you’ve had from the first day I’ve started wrestling to now.
I’ve been a fan of The Rock ever since he first came to wrestling. Every time I went to school, I talked about The Rock. So when I finally got to meet him I couldn’t believe it! When he walked through the door, I went bug-eyed! ‘I’m standing next to The Rock, man!’ He’s huge. He’s very nice, though.
Florida was a hotbed of professional wrestling, one of the hottest in the country.
New York, specifically, has been very good to me throughout my wrestling career.
I’m the man that made wrestling famous.
People always say, ‘You can’t go home again,’ but every time I go to the Mid-Atlantic Wrestling Legends Fanfest in Charlotte, it feels like I have.
I am the greatest heel, which means the bad guy in the wrestling history.
Being in the wrestling business, it was a whole lot to deal with in a short amount of time. I went from amateur wrestling one minute to, the next minute, I’m traveling the world, and I’m on the road 250 days a year.
Everyone wants to call wrestling ‘the business.’ Why don’t you treat it like a business? I don’t care if you’re running a diner, if you’re running a car wash or a wrestling company. It’s all business.
Yeah, there are a couple of wrestling shows out there with very, very good production values in RAW and SmackDown, but I think we’re going to offer something completely different from what they offer, a very, very different kind of product that visually is going to look as good or better in a lot of ways.
I just wanted to stay Harley Race in the wrestling world, worldwide, and that is what I did for a long time.
If you look at wrestling when I started to get my big break back in 1992, I changed wrestling from the cartoons of Hulk Hogan and Iron Sheik and the matches with the leg drop and the hand behind the ear and the playing to the crowd. They were just cartoon characters if you ask me.
