Former UFC prospect and contestant on The Ultimate Fighter turned pro wrestling star "Filthy" Tom Lawlor recently appeared as a guest on Figure Four Daily for an in-depth interview.
During the discussion, the NJPW STRONG Openweight Champion spoke about being included in the 28-man field for the 2022 G1 Climax 32 Tournament for the first-time.
Featured below is an excerpt from the interview where he touches on this topic with his thoughts.
“How about that? Filthy Tom Lawlor in the G1 Tournament 2022, the 50th anniversary of New Japan. Who embodies strong style more than me? I don’t know if you can find many more people. If you think about it, it’s based upon is legitimate martial arts fighting skill. Everybody thinks strong style is beating each other up and head dropping each other and nailing each other unprotected. No, no, no. Strong style is about legitimate martial arts techniques, fighting spirit. I have an idea, but I wouldn’t even consider that information to be reliable because the information I had going in wasn’t necessarily 100%. I wasn’t surprised to see my name, these things do take time and has been in the works for a while. I just got my visa back recently, very recently. I had information that ended up being what was not provided on the broadcast. The number of people, stuff like that.”
Check out the complete interview at F4WOnline.com. H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes.
