When you're wrestling, it's such an amazing sport. I love it. I loved that I came from that background.
When I was nine years old and dreamed of being a pro wrestler, the thing I was most fascinated by was how much love the wrestlers got.
I've always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.
In professional wrestling, I'm sure in combat sports, there's always gonna be testosterone.
Those who have not seen wrestling before have probably tuned in to 'Lucha Underground' and go, 'Whoa! This is a TV series turned into wrestling.'
I'm still a wrestling fan: That's how I started out, that's how I will end the day.
I'm a professional wrestler at heart, and I miss it.
People love to be entertained and love the different storylines that go on in pro wrestling.
As far as memories go, I was around for the very first WrestleMania. I was a young kid upstairs at my uncle's restaurant in a change room or staff room watching it, I think, illegally, on a black and white television.
I wrestled 23 straight years all over the world.
First and foremost, that was always my passion: I wanted to wrestle, but unfortunately, it took me down a road that I can't do that anymore.
When I was a little kid, I'd always go to WWE shows and I was a huge fan of Razor Ramon.
I've been in the ring with so many guys, and I've been in the ring quite a bit with Randy. The WWE live events are... a little bit different from what you see on TV. It seems to flow better; more matches, longer wrestling.
I grew up in rural Missouri about two hours north of St. Louis, and if the wind was blowing right on a Saturday night, I could catch All Star Wrestling out of Kansas City, which was run by Bob Geigel, and some of the stars there were Bulldog Bob Brower and Ray Candy.
This whole wrestling world is a different breed, there's no doubt.
I remember when I was a kid that the only way to see Hulk Hogan wrestle was you'd have to go to the live shows. He was never on TV. So I thought "Why not do the same thing?"
When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
When you put wrestlers on TV, they're the highest professionals in the business.
When I wrestled, I always considered myself an athlete and a wrestler.
I listened to the veteran wrestlers that had tons of experience, like Leo Burke.
I still recall the first time I laid eyes on Ric. Dusty Rhodes and Dick Murdoch were wrestling, at the time, in Minnesota, and they took a liking to this kid who'd been hanging around the matches. That kid was Ric Flair, and they brought him to my ranch in Amarillo, Texas.
I was an amateur wrestler, which I loved. It was my passion, but I started really late; I was a junior in high school when I began.
As a kid, growing up, my heroes all had the Intercontinental Championship. Ultimate Warrior, Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Mr. Perfect, Ric Rude, all of them. And they were the people I looked up to and wanted to be like.
It's been an amazing journey that I've had with WWE.
I was the first WWE developmental talent. When I moved to Connecticut to start training, I had no idea what wrestling was other than what I saw as a fan.
