Austin Aries

I think that once I started connecting dots of where my food was coming from and the reality of that, as opposed to maybe what you think it is as a little kid, and the realities of how my food was getting to my plate and what the real effects of that are. When I started connecting those dots, I couldn't disconnect them.

I always say men's facial hair is kind of like women's makeup. We know how to contour our face real nice and give ourselves nice angles and make our nose look not quite as crooked as it is.

Defending the Impact title against Jay Lethal would be phenomenal.

Really, since I left Impact Wrestling - some people say controversially - I've been really laying low.

I've been blessed for 17 years to have a job where I make people forget their problems for a little while.

I have put a lot of energy and focus into capturing the Cruiserweight Championship, but obviously I didn't get the job done.

I think it's always good to have realistic short term goals and then lofty longer term goals.

I've accomplished every goal I've set out to. I've traveled the world, I've competed in just about every promotion there is.

I was thankful that TNA saw the potential in me and put me in a position to fulfill something like winning the World Heavyweight Championship.

WWE is the biggest entity in professional wrestling and if you want to prove yourself to be one of the greatest or one of the best, then that's the only place you can do it.

As for regret, more than anything else, my regret lies in that the WWE Universe never really got the real Austin Aries. Outside of commentary, they missed out on the chance to hear and see me be me, and do what I do best.

When I was contacted about coming back to Impact they were obviously at a stage when they were really rebooting as a company.