Mauro Ranallo Quotes

I feel like I started with wrestling, and a love of pro wrestling, that lead me to MMA and the UFC. And now it's come full circle back to pro wrestling.

I think people are realizing that whereas now the 'Ultimate Fighting Championship' has taken over what people used to like about pro wrestling in the '70s and '80s. We just want to see who's going to fight for the title.

Growing up, I was always a fan of wrestling, but I was also a fan of MMA and stuff.

When I started wrestling, I never wanted to go to WWE. It was the Japanese life for me.

One of the reasons I started pursuing MMA was for all the similarities to pro wrestling that it has.

Brock Lesnar is a very big guy.

My whole career, I've been fighting wrestlers. If you look back, all of my fights have been against wrestlers.

All those guys wanna be us. All the fighters wanna be in professional wrestling; I don't care what they say.

I've been doing everything people like to see: knock people out, and submissions, and go in there to fight.

I have never been in a cage fighting UFC. It would be nice to try.

I'm not Ken Shamrock the MMA World Champion No Holds Barred fighter. I'm Ken Shamrock, The World's Most Dangerous Man. Professional wrestling and MMA champion.

I could never see myself getting in a ring and wrestling Zack Ryder.

I've fought for different organisations, different titles, from all around the world.

Pro wrestling has absolutely helped my fighting.

Heath Herring is tough as nails, and he fights hard.

I just don't want to be a champion; I want to be one of the best fighters there ever was.

Wrestling has always been a dominating force in UFC.

Mixed martial arts is great, and it's here to stay.

I'm not the only guy who doesn't have an independent wrestling background. You know, I have a football background, but I also have a wrestling one.

In my teenage years, I started kickboxing, then did a little boxing. When the UFC and MMA exploded in the early 2000s in the U.S.A. and Japan, I saw a way to make money and a career.

Sprinkle in a bit of pro wrestling in MMA is good. You get the fans talking. They want that drama.

I actually think that wrestling is much harder than MMA, to be honest.

I do practice martial arts, more as a recreational thing, but a lot of my friends have been heavyweight champions the in mixed martial arts world.

Wrestling is the ultimate martial art.

There's no question, I guarantee you, that you will see more NFL players getting into wrestling. They have the personality for it.