My family comes from Panama, and I grew up in a single parent household with my mother, who barely spoke English. She couldn't get a good job, yet there were four of us for her to raise.
Pro wrestling has absolutely helped my fighting.
I don't spoil myself on extravagant cars or spending money on jewelry. So I save a lot of the money I have.
You can scout people as much as you want. At the end of the day, it's a fight, so you got to be ready for almost anything.
I've had no documented concussions.
Kurt Angle was amazing. He was the person who got me into pro wrestling. He found me when I was at the Olympic training center just wrestling, amateur wrestling.
Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.
One thing you gotta take into consideration is that it's professional wrestling, and you know it going in. There's dangers to every profession, and our particular profession, concussions is one thing.
I am really simple with diets. I say feed your frame.
Whether it's MMA or wrestling, I try to find the best people and go after the best people.
I don't know which one is harder - going from MMA to wrestling or from wrestling to MMA.
Some guys lock up when they hear the crowd. I feel the energy and take it with me into the fight. I've been in front of huge crowds and know to use that energy.
Bobby Roode is amazing.
I wanted to go into this fight business, and I wanted to go into it full force. So when you do something like that - enter into a new venture - it keeps you very busy.
I'm really considering getting into amateur wrestling and getting into more tournaments. I'm looking into going to do some Jiu-Jitsu tournaments. I'm looking into everything.
I can go and fight, take one punch, and have a concussion and start having issues with it, or I can wrestle my entire career and never have a concussion. It's just a hazard of the business.
I like Canada. The fans here are great. It's always good to come up here with some good energy.
I'm a baby face in real life - in person.
With wrestling, we're still athletes. I train like we're an athlete as opposed to a body builder. Some people still have that body-builder mentality. But not from me. I do a lot of agility work and stuff like that.
When I went to Impact, it was me proving myself on a daily basis to a lot of different people. I mean, I had matches with Austin Aries, matches with Jeff Hardy, Bobby Roode, Drew McIntyre. I mean, I wrestled everyone. During that time, I wasn't just sitting back saying, 'Man, I hope WWE picks me up. I hope they see me. I hope to get back.'
