The best thing you can probably do is keep a low profile, keep your eyes and ears open, your mouth shut, and you will learn a ton.
People get hired based off of a certain look or something like that and they have no intention of paying their dues or even respecting the business. It’s not a good idea to do that.
I think it’s good to have different styles, though. I think it’s good to have a lucha on a show, some Japanese flavor, I think MMA is a good thing, a little bit of the hardcore and the blood and guts is good. That is what makes a show for me.
If the story’s there for it, if there’s a reason for it, then I’m all for it. But if you throw in a barbed wire match just to do a barbed wire match, then it makes no sense to me.
I had a Chicago Street Fight a couple of years back in Ring of Honor that was really bloody and really violent. That is probably the closest thing to the Extreme Elimination Chamber I can think of.
My dream match is me and Chris Benoit against Fit Finlay and William Regal. That way I get to work with Benoit and I get to beat up and get beat up by Finlay and Regal.
Can I wear your blazer?
John, what are you doing? John, my diet soda. What are you doing?
I think pro wrestling doesn’t seem to get a lot of mainstream attention until somebody dies.
My name’s Punk. CM Punk.
Don’t look at me like that, Michael Cole.
You can tell that hold is effective because his face is red and the rest of his body is the color of a bottle of 2% milk.
I am the voice of the voiceless.
It looks like they’ve been watching old Japan tapes!
Cole, you stay right where you are. Miz has enough people at ringside tonight.
It’s a good thing a DUI’s job security.
Security, we have a jumper! Security?
I might wear a tux on Monday. Or a kimono!
He just hit himself in the dinger with a rubber.
If Triple H asked you to jump off a bridge, would you? Because I think that’s good for business.
I was a huge Sub-Zero guy, but the fact that you can download Freddy Krueger is the coolest thing I’ve heard of in a very long time.