SHAYNA BASZLER

It's weird how America works. Healthy food costs way more than crap.

Ronda's a natural athlete. Just learning a different rule set and bringing what she has from MMA would be the same: does her judo translate to MMA, will her MMA translate to pro wrestling? She's been pretty successful one way, and I think she'll be pretty successful the other way.

Training with Billy Robinson is just like any martial artist who would go to the old master of the art. He's so knowledgeable.

In MMA, there isn't time to admire your work until it's all over with. In sports-entertainment, I can admire what I'm doing while it's happening.

I can't tell you how many fights I had where I had to pay to go fight. It was a lot of them.

Waving the banner of my coaches is a heavy flag to wield, so it's something I take very serious.

I do a lot of crazy stuff. People that have watched me know my grappling game is of the regular map that you'd see in a jiu-jitsu class.

I've played basketball, and I've stood at the free-throw line with a tie game and 0.2 seconds left. But there is no feeling in the world like being in that ring when they close it up and ask, 'Are you ready?'

I'm looking forward to getting out there and twisting limbs off and breaking bodies.

If you do your history, pro wrestling is just the worked version of what MMA is.

I don't care what Dana White thinks.

Everything I've gotten, I've had to work twice as hard to earn.

I've already done enough to prove myself. Win or lose, I think I've done enough to cement my name in the history of this sport. So for me, it's more like I have to win just for an opportunity to get on the mic and say all that.

I spent so many years in MMA waving the banner for pro wrestling, telling fighters they had to be more entertaining.

I've faced the undefeated, young up-and-comers, everybody counting me out before, on a big card, with big lights, TV.

It's almost going to sound like a jerk thing to say, but it's so easy to manipulate the fans to love us or hate us. It's fun. It makes it really fun.

WWE is something I've had my eye on.

I'm being more physical and aggressive while, at the same time, I'm not being overwhelmed by strong fighters like Sara McMann.

I think that Ronda and I had similar paths in MMA; she became a bigger star than I ever was, but a similar thing happened, where the backlash from the fans happened after you slip up once kind of makes you fall out of love with it.

If you follow my MMA career, I've always been the pro wrestler of women's MMA, coming out with a guitar, saying crazy things on interviews, promos and such.

Because I've been around the MMA block a little bit, I'm at a point now where I just want bodies to beat up. I'm past the point in my career where I'm picking and choosing.

Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.

'Final Fantasy VII' is my favorite video game, and I had a conversation on Up Up Down Down, and I don't wanna say who is my favorite character, but my default would be Sephiroth.

It's hard to simulate the things that I do.

Cris Cyborg is one of the best in the world, and there is no shame in losing to her.