Pardon me, not to sound elitist, but I wanted to put something together that I would enjoy. I thought at that time, what satiated me, what interested me, what intrigued me, I thought other people would like also. And you blend that with some forward thinking of predicting the UFC and MMA were going to be ultimately as big as it became.

The cutthroat part of it is that professional wrestling has no union. There are a number of people that are taken advantage of on a daily basis.

I was a football player and competitor in life.

All of my cats are adopted and all show their gratitude on a daily basis. I don't know where I would be without them.

At the end of the day, when two combatants get into the ring and/or cage, it's anybody's game, especially in MMA.

My character was a homogenization of various things, whether it be the attitude of a Bruiser Brody, or the look of Nikita Koloff or the way that Nikita looked at the people. I took a little bit of what I liked and what I had seen throughout the years from everybody that I was entertained by and made it my own.

At the end of the day you go out and do your job and follow your directions.