There's a lot of talent down there in NXT.
My goal is to be the best champion possible and to do that I have to go against the best.
Even before I became a WWE Superstar, I was told I was never going to make it because I wasn't big enough. You know what I mean? I wasn't strong enough, I wasn't 6 foot 8.
It's awesome, I tell everyone that the U.K. is one of my favourite places to go.
The performance centre is unbelievable, I've had a chance to go there on a couple of occasions in Orlando as it's only about two hours from my house, and I was completely blown away.
One of the matches that is pretty dear to my heart is when I took on Chris Jericho at Night of Champions in 2008.
Myself, I always tell people that if you're not getting better you're only getting worse, and every day I try and be better than yesterday.
It is one thing to tell people in theory that you can be whatever you want to be, but it is another thing to tell someone that they can be whatever they wanted to be because somebody that is just like you did it.
I honestly believe that if you are able to entertain and interact with the crowd, it doesn't matter what ethnicity you may be.
People always say, 'Oh, there haven't been many black champions,' but on the other hand, there are a whole lot of white people that never won a belt either.
With Punk, I consider him to be like a brother to me. He's one of the guys who took me under his wing when I first came. So we've been able to maintain a good relationship. And there are very few people in the business that you can call true friends, so I consider Punk to be that and more. So yes, 'road wife' is the term we used to sum that all up.
The New Day has been the New Day because what we have done. We can be entertaining but then we can get serious, too.
For me personally, I'm going to continue to do what I do in the ring.
What I'm trying to do is reinvent what the face of a champion looks like. I'm out there trying to represent for the people who question whether they can become a champion or not.
I'm just so proud to be champion and to have the support of my peers and my fans.
It was a very real thing, not a storyline thing when Randy Orton didn't want me to get to a certain point in WWE.
When I was training before I was even signed, I was listening to the Damian Marley CD 'Welcome to Jamrock,' and I got the idea one day in promo class to cut a promo in a Jamaican accent and everybody in the class went wild. That was the character I played from that point on and it kind of stuck until it didn't.
A lot of times when teams break up, it's to do better as singles competitors than they're doing as a group.
I've always said that 205 Live is one of the best-kept secrets in WWE.
Making people believe they can do great things, that's an instant motivator.
