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. Shayna Baszler Read Quote
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. Shayna Baszler Read Quote
If you do your history, pro wrestling is just the worked version of what MMA is. Shayna Baszler Read Quote
It’s interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study. Shayna Baszler Read Quote
In MMA, you’re trained to tune the audience out. In sports entertainment, you’re trained to feed off what the audience is thinking and feeling. Shayna Baszler Read Quote
In sports entertainment, you can take your time and digest what’s going on along with the audience. Shayna Baszler Read Quote
I can’t tell you how many fights I had where I had to pay to go fight. It was a lot of them. Shayna Baszler Read Quote
