Championship Quote by Chael Sonnen

Obviously wrestling is a core component of MMA. And among UFC fighters, my take-down defence is considered quite high.

— Robert Whittaker

I've said it many times that wrestling is the best base to have in MMA. It's been instrumental in my MMA career and it…

— Dan Henderson

I've been working on wrestling aside from MMA. That is something that I wasn't doing in the past so I'm getting more confident in…

— Gegard Mousasi

The way you stop a takedown in wrestling is to meet force with force. You don't try to go away.

— Justin Gaethje

Wrestlers tend to do good in MMA because they tend to be just some tough guys. It's not a karate situation where they grew…

— Chael Sonnen

I think it's very important that wrestling steps back and gets back to the core values of, you know, it's a controlled fight. It's…

— Cael Sanderson

MMA is all about putting on a show and entertaining the fans, and that's the one thing I've known from the get-go.

— Roy Nelson

Wrestling was you wrestle in college and you become a high school coach. That was it for wrestlers. We just started to realize there…

— Benson Henderson

My view on wrestling in MMA is changed a lot since I started really doing it.

— Ben Askren

For many many years, the MMA world shunned on the pro wrestling world. They shunned on us for getting action figures and whatnot.

— Christian Cage

Honestly, I feel like the more entrenched into professional wrestling I got, it became apparent to me that it was really a part and…

— Josh Barnett

You can have the best college wrestling in the world, but you can have terrible MMA wrestling.

— Rashad Evans