IWGP is the number one title in the world.
I started wrestling in Mexico, and then I came to New Japan.
My dropkick is from Mexico, but my fighting spirit is from Japan.
There is more emotion in a match in New Japan. The matches here in the U.S. are so fast that sometime they lack emotion. It is move, move, move.
When I was just a strong wrestler, TNA didn't use me. I didn't have a character, so I knew I needed one.
I am new school, but Ultimo Dragon taught me that wrestling is a fight. He taught me the importance of the fighting spirit in the ring.
Dropkicks are old moves, but I wanted to make a new version of an old move.
I'm going to show you how we do it in New Japan Pro Wrestling. That's what you get whenever I wrestle, whoever's in the ring with me.
I should hold the IWGP title always.
I'm the best, not Omega. I love New Japan more than Omega, and I will continue to prove that.
I was a young age, 16 years old, in Mexico. I traveled to these different countries, and I have the new style from Mexico and TNA. I wrestled two years in Florida, then back in Japan, and everything combined for a new style. It's different. I was looking for old school wrestling that looked new.
There's no bigger a superstar, and nobody closer with the fans, than Kazuchika Okada.
Tenryu is a legend in Japan.
My dream is to bring a G1 tournament to the United States. I want to do a G1 in front of American crowds.
I love working in front of American crowds.
I wouldn't say I really admired anyone. When I was a kid, there were definitely a lot of tough guys, but they weren't really cool. If anything, that was an influence on me: to take that toughness and combine it with the cool style, the cool entrance, the cool gear - and driving to work in a Ferrari.
I had no aspirations beyond middle school except to wrestle, no reason to go into high school. This world is all I've known since 15 years of age.
I think it's cool to be able to show people who don't know anything about NJPW what we do.
