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I always love the locker rooms that I end up in.
I'm always impressed when fans' knowledge surpasses me.
You can catch me following good wrestlers wherever they are.
Locker rooms always evolve with the wrestlers that are in it.
I loved wrestling when you had to get a VHS tape from a strange.
Me and my girlfriend make all my costumes here ourselves at home.
I don't really pay attention to WWE stuff as it's just not for me.
There is this energy, a lifeblood energy that runs through Ring of Honor.
Whether I am the Champion or not is irrelevant to me. I am not attached to it.
Scientology is completely irrelevant to any of the talks that have been given to me.
You don't want to end up being an indie wrestler who wants to be the big fish in a small pond.
The Japanese style, they really do have concern for their neighbors kind of more than themselves.
I'm the best Crusierweight, X Division, Junior Heavyweight wrestler whatever you want to call it.
WWE was pretty wonderful to me because I was able to rehab my foot 100 percent before I was released.
For me, as much fun as it is to watch wrestling is, actually wrestling is what struck a chord with me.
When you're in the Ring of Honor locker room, you feel like something special is happening every night.
Impact is just always improving at all angles. There is a lot of creativity and thought that goes into everything.
For us, our stage is always what it is. It's not about reaching the broadest audience as it's about doing quality work.
I am in a closed state where I'm just reacting and moving based on my instincts, knowledge, technique and years of experience.
I worked extremely hard and dedicated my life to pro wrestling but the more I grow in ways not related to work, my work grows.
I use the right hemisphere of my brain and what I have is this advantage that makes me exceedingly interesting in pro wrestling.
Brodie Lee would be a match I'd love to have. When he was the TNT Champion, I was sort of hoping to work my way up to that level.
I watch Dragon Gate, New Japan, NXT, AEW. I love the Lucha Bros, The Young Bucks. Mainly I watch the guys in the shows that I'm on.
The internet has given pure equality to everyone. The cream rises to the top. It is the era of not take a job, but create your own job.
There are so many people in Ring of Honor and so much talent. It was almost intimidating to be thrown back in with this wealth of talent.
Of course, I was an insane ECW fan. You don't get this deep into wrestling unless you are obsessed with wrestling so that was the final hook.
The thing I noticed most from challenging from country to country is not the differences but the similarities. Wrestling fans are all the same.
But I really think wrestling with pure intentions just wrestling to be a better wrestler, eventually you will get there when the time is right.
For me, I'm not trying to be the flavor for everybody. But I'm just proud when people I respect or people that I want to be my fans are my fans.
Evan Bourne is a ship that has sailed but if he wound up back at WWE, I'm imagine I'd run back to that name because of copyright ownership stuff.
I don't wanna say I'm anti-military as my mission is the exact opposite and I'm a unifying force. I'm there to show everybody that we're all the exact same.
I mean I imagine I could have done a better job with keeping my paperwork and paying my taxes. For the most part, everything happened exactly the way it should.
I do work for Impact Wrestling, but I'm just a straight up freelance agent in wrestling. I can work for anybody at any time. Basically every company calls me up.
If you're just trying to get by, you're going to be left behind. The caliber of shows I'm on are incredible, and it makes me just want to raise that bar even more.
I was down in Peru, and I was watching AAA in Spanish on my TV, and it just it blew my mind because they weren't following any of the rules, yet the crowd was still there.
I always wanted to be the worst wrestler on the shows I was on so I could just learn from the guys above me, and that's a great way to be in your first few years of wrestling.
Someone like Brian Cage, he's a gigantic man who is trying to wrestle like me. That's his mistake because I clearly hold the top card in someone who is wrestling like Matt Sydal.
Wrestling has become its own thing separate from what it was in the past and now when people think of pro wrestlers they don't think of Hulk Hogan, they're thinking of guys like me.
All the people who were on WSX Season 1 are the life blood of the alternative wrestling business, and now the mainstream wrestling business as well. That is what Lucha Underground is doing.
It's just important for me to be healthy and just to take care of my body. Fans will appreciate the sacrifices we make with our bodies but I was just working a little more hurt than I should.
Now I think a lot of wrestlers want to get signed so that way they can be with a company where they can learn, but they're really kind of looking for a contract, and I do think that makes sense.
I'm always supportive of my brothers who have the guts to step in the cage. Pro wrestling is dangerous but it takes a special kind of courage to lock yourself in a cage that wants to do you harm.
There are ties that began when I was just a young kid trying to cut my teeth in the business. I would drive 14 hours to wrestle on a Ring of Honor show that I didn't even get paid 20 dollars for.
When I was at IMPACT and X Division Champion, my neck wasn't able to handle the workload and after losing the belt to Brian Cage in a match I just realized my neck just can't handle this anymore.
I can know what Brian Cage is doing before he's doing it because he's doing me. I've been facing the man in the mirror my entire life. That's been my hardest battle is the one where it's me versus me.
So, there's plenty of good heels in the business. I don't see guys who can get fans to rally behind them like I do. It's hard. It's the hardest job in the business and I'm doing it every single night.
The hardest thing to do in wrestling is that every time you show up, there's just a ring with three ropes, turnbuckles on each side, it's extremely hard to do something to surprise and shock the fans.
I always stand behind the things that I do. I don't listen to those who downplay things nor do I pay attention to those who grovel at our feet and tell us that we're the greatest. For me, that is just noise.
I remember when I had just left WWE and I was wrestling in England and Germany, I could just tell that this influx of this new wave of wrestling was coming much like it felt when I began wrestling back in '99.
I was creating content that I had in my head and I was making it in the ring and WSX was giving me an opportunity, an uninhibited opportunity, to create and manufacture my vision for wrestling for other people.