Mike Bailey talks about a potential run in MMA.
There are few wrestlers in today's world that can say that represent multiple different styles of fighting, but 'Speedball' Mike Bailey is one of them. Bailey, who currently represents IMPACT Wrestling, incorporates a lot of martial arts into his wrestling style.
In a new interview with Fightful, Bailey shut down the idea of a potential run at an MMA career, citing that pro wrestling takes up a lot of his time.
"I feel like pro wrestling takes up way too much time for me to be able to focus. Maybe in a different part of my career, but then I might be too old. I’ve competed in Tae Kwon Do. I’ve done one boxing match. It all ended up the same with professional wrestling. It’s not worth the expense and the time and the weight cut to miss out on a wrestling match to do it. However, if it was one of those money fights with a YouTuber, I would 100% entertain the idea. I think it would be great. I think it would be fun."
Bailey went on to toy with the idea of a fight with a YouTuber, all while making the perfect click bait headline along the way.
"Right. So that’s the other side of it. So to answer your question, yes, I’ll fight Jake Paul. That’s where this was going, right? Love Anderson Silva. But maybe not Jake Paul. He’s a little bit above my weight class. I think Speedball Mike Bailey versus PewDiePie would be worth watching. No! I made clickbait! ‘Calls out PewDiePie,’ hell yeah."
Elsewhere in the interview, Bailey talked about doing high-risk wrestling moves when he was nine years old. To learn more, click here.
