Shayna Baszler discusses catch wrestling.
Appearing on WWE’s The Bump, Baszler discussed her MMA background and her training in Muay Thai, Catch Wrestling, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. She also noted that she has her black belt in catch wrestling due to her time in WWE.
“Yeah, and it’s cool because both of us are honoring where we started all this, wearing our black belts to the ring. It’s not just a reminder to everyone else about our pedigree, it’s a reminder to ourselves of where we come from. So it’s funny because, I’m sure Ronda learning to throw people at four or me getting on a wrestling mat when I was six or signing up for my first jujitsu class, it’s not something that was like, ‘Alright, I can’t wait.’ It’s funny, I’ve talked about my catch wrestling, and I studied catch wrestling alongside Brazilian jujitsu, and catch wrestling is more like amateur wrestling in that there’s not a belt system per se. But in the old way of catch wrestling, you didn’t get to do professional wrestling until you prove yourself on the mat as an amateur. So I’ve always said that pro wrestling in the WWE is my black belt in catch wrestling if there was one. So, I don’t know, it’s just a cool way to show that all this was put into motion long, long ago,”
Shayna Baszler
Baszler is set to unify to the tag titles of WWE’s women’s roster soon, when she and Ronda Rousey take on NXT Women’s Tag Team Champions Alba Fyre and Isla Dawn.
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