KAZUCHIKA OKADA

I am the face of NJPW.

I love working in front of American crowds.

I should hold the IWGP title always.

I wouldn't say I really admired anyone. When I was a kid, there were definitely a lot of tough guys, but they weren't really cool. If anything, that was an influence on me: to take that toughness and combine it with the cool style, the cool entrance, the cool gear - and driving to work in a Ferrari.

Many people ask me about WWE and if I'd go to WWE in the future. They ask me if I'm going now. I will not go. I want to make New Japan Pro-Wrestling bigger.

There is more emotion in a match in New Japan. The matches here in the U.S. are so fast that sometime they lack emotion. It is move, move, move.

IWGP is the number one title in the world.

I was always a good wrestler. I feel like I can wrestle anybody.

I am new school, but Ultimo Dragon taught me that wrestling is a fight. He taught me the importance of the fighting spirit in the ring.

I didn't get to wrestle at all in TNA. I wanted to wrestle, and they wouldn't let me.

I like doing the shows with Ring of Honor, but I don't want to leave Japan.

Dropkicks are old moves, but I wanted to make a new version of an old move.

Hell, I might want to be like some other people and become a movie star or join the UFC. You never know.

When I was just a strong wrestler, TNA didn't use me. I didn't have a character, so I knew I needed one.

My dream is to bring a G1 tournament to the United States. I want to do a G1 in front of American crowds.

So, wrestling, being strong, having good matches? I learned that in New Japan. But as a TV character? TNA was good.

Jay White has a great chance to make his name off of me. But I'm not going to make that easy.

To have a Japanese wrestler standing as the face of professional wrestling, there's only one person for that spot, and it's me.

I started wrestling in Mexico, and then I came to New Japan.

In all honesty, I'm not interested in records.

New Japan is far superior to WWE when it comes to the quality of the roster and the quality of the matches.

From what I can see, gone are the days where you can just be the strongest, and that will put you at the top. It takes a little bit more... something else to grab the attention of not just pro wrestling fans but fans in general - to catch their eye.

I was a young age, 16 years old, in Mexico. I traveled to these different countries, and I have the new style from Mexico and TNA. I wrestled two years in Florida, then back in Japan, and everything combined for a new style. It's different. I was looking for old school wrestling that looked new.

I'm the best, not Omega. I love New Japan more than Omega, and I will continue to prove that.

There's no bigger a superstar, and nobody closer with the fans, than Kazuchika Okada.