Quotes from Pete Dunne

My main focus is performance. I want to put on better matches in the ring and stay injury-free, so it's not about aesthetics.

I was in China for 3 months, doing a tour and I was teaming with CJ Banks. We needed a name and it was around the time of the Cruiserweight Classic. We thought Bruiserweight's was a pretty funny name.

I started wrestling in Coventry in a run-down community centre just on mats, we didn't even have a ring.

I want to move along and become the biggest star in WWE. I don't really care who it angers along the way, to be honest. It's no concern of mine, really.

It's great to be part of Survivor Series and getting the chance to do that. At the same time I want NXT to stand out on its own.

At independent shows the crowd are very involved and it's about interacting with the live audience. With WWE that's less important and it's more about portraying your character and getting it across to as many people as possible.

I sort of seen a few iterations of NXT, but the one constant throughout is it's a competitive locker room in a positive way.

The main challenge is being put into a tag team, where you've never done any tag team stuff before, even coming up with new moves and ideas.

When we travel every weekend and we're out in these different towns, seeing the numbers that show up and how into the shows they are, I love the fact that we get to travel around and bring NXT to these fans in different towns that love what we do.

Yeah I feel like British wrestling deserves a bigger chance and everyone will see that when it's on the WWE Network. People will realise not just in England, but in all the different countries here, there is a lot of talent.

I think a lot of wrestling revolves around the bodybuilding-type perspective on nutrition, whereas I have a different approach; I'm way more focused on longevity and making sure I get those micronutrients in and eating a bunch of organic good as often as I can.

William Regal is an obvious influence, as is Fit Finlay - you can see that in my style of wrestling - but I try not to copy too much of what I see now as that was part of my problem early on.

It's always been the way in Britain. I'm not sure what it is, but it's always been a cliche over here that we start wrestling from about 10-years-old. I'm really glad that I got the opportunity because it's given me a massive head-start.

I started in an asbestos filled room on some thin judo mats and the first time I was in a ring was my first match. We did shows for 50 people and were pleased with that.

I call myself 'The Bruiserweight'. I fit the weight category of a cruiserweight, but I don't wrestle like your average cruiserweight.

Wrestling in general is a lot more Americanized, to use that term loosely. Back when I started, there were still a few people practicing that old-school British style. At the time, I didn't want to do that. I wanted to wrestle like AJ Styles; I wanted to do flips and that sort of stuff, but I never really got it.

NXT has been great to me. I love being able to wrestle the way I want to wrestle and be who I want to be. NXT is this amazing platform to do that.

I love the opportunity to go out there for 40 minutes and just wrestle, and have that time to engage the story and have a brilliant technical wrestling match.

I'd love to do WrestleMania - if it was possible I'd love to defend the UK Title at WrestleMania, and who knows - in a few years' time, whether I'm the first British WWE Champion, or maybe the second or third, that's definitely a goal that I'd like to achieve.

If I could face anyone at any point at WrestleMania, it would be Mark Andrews.

I see myself as a career professional wrestler. The end goal wasn't always to go to Raw or SmackDown, it was just to create a body of work that I'm proud of.

I have a soft spot for those wrestlers who used to bounce around different territories, if you want to use that word, or different parts of the world.

I always tried to be the good guy and emulate what my favourite wrestlers were doing - people like AJ Styles - but my character started to click when I became bad.

For me, it was the early independent era of AJ Styles, Samoa Joe, Daniel Bryan that inspired me and they were in sports halls and grimy little venues having fantastic wrestling matches and that's what appealed to me about wrestling at the time.