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Ilja Dragunov has explained how he felt after winning the NXT Championship.
At NXT No Mercy, Ilja Dragunov defeated Carmelo Hayes to win the NXT Championship. The match has been well received by fans in the arena and online with an emotional, physical war.
Speaking on Busted Open Radio, Dragunov was asked how he felt after winning the NXT Championship once he was by himself and could soak in the moment. He answered:
“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.”
When Bully Ray asked what he can do to separate himself from previous NXT Champions, Dragunov answered:
“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.”
You can see the video of Ilja Dragunov’s emotional moment with Shawn Michaels following his title win at NXT No Mercy at this link.
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