Ilja Dragunov says he felt empty inside upon winning the NXT Championship.
Dragunov took on Hayes for the NXT Championship at NXT No Mercy, and after a brutal war walked away with the championship. After the match, Dragunov would shake Carmelo’s hand.
Speaking on Busted Open Radio, Dragunov was asked how he felt once he was by himself and could soak in the moment.
“When this moment was there, I felt empty, but empty can be good sometimes. I have this thing I say, when one day, when I’m gone, ‘I want to go empty.’ I want to go knowing that I gave knowing that I gave everything that I possibly could. I have nothing to regret, nothing to leave behind, I left all that I had to offer. This is one of those moments where I felt this emptiness but in a very good way,”
“The thing is, I won’t stop. There is no one in this business who can deliver this kind of emotion, this kind of passion, getting people into the fight. When I fight, people feel like they are into it. They feel the pain, they feel the struggle. Everything I’m working on has become the ultimate symbol, like not even being human anymore, just a symbol that people can hold on. This is what I can offer for the NXT Championship. Being a champion people can believe in. They look at him and see something they want to be in a certain part of their life. This fighting spirit, you can put it in any area of their life and people want to have it. This courage to step up and deliver in the whole sense of their existence.”
Ilja Dragunov
We will have to wait and see what will come next for Dragunov now he has reached the top of the mountain in NXT.
H/T to Fightful for transcription
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