A biography for Shayna Baszlerhasn’t been written yet.
“I spent so many years in MMA waving the banner for pro wrestling, telling fighters they had to be more entertaining.”
“Anyone who is friends with a fighter or lives with a fighter, you know that a fighter cutting weight is on edge.”
“I do a lot of crazy stuff. People that have watched me know my grappling game is of the regular map that you'd see in a jiu-jitsu class.”
“If you do your history, pro wrestling is just the worked version of what MMA is.”
“I don't care what Dana White thinks.”
“You know how you defeat chaos? You suck the air out of it and put it to sleep.”
“I didn't get into MMA because I wanted to be UFC champion. That wasn't my motivation.”
“Normally, when a fighter gets challenged, they answer.”
“I think that Ronda and I had similar paths in MMA; she became a bigger star than I ever was, but a similar thing happened, where the backlash from the fans happened after you slip up once kind of makes you fall out of love with it.”
“If I could have had the opportunity to be a full-time fighter while I was one of the best in the world, what could I have done then?”
“Look at something like boxing. People know that some fights are fixed, but nobody looks at a boxing match and automatically assumes it's fake.”
“I think seeing me cross over to pro wrestling and having fun - I get up in the morning, and I'm not a morning person. My alarm goes off, and I'm back out and training again.”
“It's not like I was saying, 'Oh, I want to make it to the UFC one day,' because the sport wasn't big enough then that a guy could have this as his job.”
“It's hard to simulate the things that I do.”