Professional wrestling was almost like a secret society when I started, like a Mafia, and it would destroy the Sheik to see how much that has changed.
Just the extent of the reach that the WWE Universe has around the world is incredible.
I'm going to be an ambassador for WWE.
It's no easy job being a World Heavyweight Champion; these guys like Cena, Sheamus, these guys are modeled around that and are champs for a reason.
Being in the WWE is special; NXT was a great experience: being the champion and the face of the company was amazing.
In North America, there aren't too many big places to go, so you find that pretty much all of the best talent in the world ends up filtering through WWE.
There's not as many passive wrestling fans as people would think. There are a lot of fans who just can't get enough, and they're almost more interested in what's going on behind the scenes and the business of wrestling then they are, necessarily, of what's going on inside of the ring.
Actually, a person asked me if I was ever going to come back to WWE. I told them that if I came back, it probably wouldn't be as WWE Superstar, because the young guys are really what it's all about. Bringing me back as an announcer is a great position for me to actually go out and make the young guys bigger stars.
Wrestling has grown so big... it's almost a culture. And it's a culture of all types of vibes, just like hip-hop has all kinds of vibes and rap has all kinds of vibes.
No WWE talent becomes a legend on their own.
Anything I did with the WWE was not therapeutic by any stretch of the imagination. The reality is that nobody's going to tell you that, because they have an umbilical cord hooked to Vince McMahon. I, ladies and gentlemen, do not.
I've always just took notice of what's going on in the wrestling business and who the younger fellas are, and younger ladies, that are interested in this.
My first time around in WWE, there wasn't the WWE Network. We weren't as big. It was much harder to crack through and get to the audience.
I don't really pay attention to WWE stuff as it's just not for me.
Traditionally, WWE used to shy away from that Internet kind of fan base. But I think increasingly, in life in general and every aspect of entertainment, social media, the Internet fan base is now massive.
There are good wrestling journalists and bad wrestling journalists. That's for sure.
I love the business of pro wrestling, and it is something I know better than anything else I know about.
I would consider myself a casual fan growing up because obviously wrestling was such a huge part of pop culture, and still is. I was a fan as much as it was a part of pop culture.
When I first won my WWE Championship, I just got to TV - I believe I was there five months. Everything just happened so fast; it was like a whirlwind.
When I first got into wrestling as a kid, I would read all of the wrestling magazines I could get my hands on. There was a satisfaction discovering that there was a whole wrestling world that existed that you didn't see on TV on Saturday morning. There was this idea that there was this stuff going on there that they didn't want us to see.
Interim belt is made for media and fans, not for me.
The wrestling business is my family.
I very seldom look at wrestling magazines. Whenever I do, I get angry.
No one has more charisma than me in WWE.
For sure yeah, Bullet Club is definitely synonymous with pro wrestling as a whole.
