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

Shayna Baszler

Categorized in : Never Loved Love Rock And Roll

I'm looking forward to getting out there and twisting limbs off and breaking bodies.

forward out looking looking-forward

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

weird food america way

You know how you defeat chaos? You suck the air out of it and put it to sleep.

know you chaos sleep

I've faced the undefeated, young up-and-comers, everybody counting me out before, on a big card, with big lights, TV.

big lights me young

Everything I've gotten, I've had to work twice as hard to earn.

earn everything hard work

Don't talk to me about how I haven't done anything to prove myself. I'm not worth anything. Like, seriously, do your history first, then come up with something smarter than things that are blatantly not true.

true myself me history

It's not like I'm training every day by doing an avalanche suplex off the top turnbuckle.

every-day doing day training

Training with Billy Robinson is just like any martial artist who would go to the old master of the art. He's so knowledgeable.

go training artist art

In MMA, there isn't time to admire your work until it's all over with. In sports-entertainment, I can admire what I'm doing while it's happening.

doing i-can work time

I have always had a desire to prove people that looked past me wrong, whether it was because I was a female trying to wrestle or fight in MMA or because I grew up on the wrong side of town.

fight me people past

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.

feel okay people way

I did some really heavy, intensive clinics with Billy Robinson. Anyone that knows anything about Billy, he was a mean old dude! I survived training with him and Josh Barnett, right in the same vein, my head coach for, like, 12 years.

old some like training

'Final Fantasy VII' is my favorite video game, and I had a conversation on Up Up Down Down, and I don't wanna say who is my favorite character, but my default would be Sephiroth.

down game conversation character

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.

think you love fall

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.

think me training morning

I don't care what Dana White thinks.

thinks dont-care care white

I had a little gut check, and ultimately, I grew up as far as my MMA mentality and am more mature now.

far more now mature

I'm being more physical and aggressive while, at the same time, I'm not being overwhelmed by strong fighters like Sara McMann.

being like strong time

Because I've been around the MMA block a little bit, I'm at a point now where I just want bodies to beat up. I'm past the point in my career where I'm picking and choosing.

beat career want past

I've fought on some big cards. I've fought in some big arenas, on televised cards, pay-per-view cards, whatever.

whatever some big cards