Shayna Baszler

It's almost going to sound like a jerk thing to say, but it's so easy to manipulate the fans to love us or hate us. It's fun. It makes it really fun.

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.

I love rock and roll and loved getting on wrestling mats since I was six, and I have never been ashamed of it.

One of the reasons I started pursuing MMA was for all the similarities to pro wrestling that it has.

Look, it doesn't matter who you put in front of me or how many girls out of that locker room you want to throw at me. I'm taking them all out - and never losing this title.

It's interesting because my Mixed Martial Arts upbringing is less Brazilian jiu-jitsu, which is the traditional thing that people study.

It's weird how America works. Healthy food costs way more than crap.

I didn't get into MMA because I wanted to be UFC champion. That wasn't my motivation.

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.

Changing over to the UFC, I was trying to force myself to thinking, like, 'This was it; this is the most important thing.'

Anyone who is friends with a fighter or lives with a fighter, you know that a fighter cutting weight is on edge.

Who says what is the right way and what isn't? That is some imagined social construct that people made up to feel okay about being average.