Michael Chandler Comments On Possible WWE Appearance, Working Out With Sheamus

Michael Chandler won’t be appearing at WrestleMania next year, but he says an appearance at SummerSlam could happen. The UFC star commented on his wrestling fandom during his appearance on Insight With Chris Van Vliet.

During the conversation, he looked back at his Celtic Warrior Workout with Sheamus and talked about growing up as a wrestling fan. He noted that WWE knows he’s interested in an appearance, saying ‘We’ll see’ regarding an appearance. You can see highlights below:

On What Sheamus Found the Hardest in Their Celtic Warrior Workout:

“I think it was just the overall workload, because I don’t think people really know, like, if you’re just lifting weights, it gets a certain amount of hard, but then when you couple it with something explosive, now all of a sudden, those fast twitch muscles start engaging, which increases the heart rate, and you’re doing something kind of more dynamic.

“So it was just the coupling of both. And if your body’s not really used to it, you could do just something very, very simple, like we did the belt squat, but then we did jumps right after. So there’s like, six jumps as high as you can. So you’re adding the cardio with the strength. So I think it was just the overall cardio workload of the thing, and then we did the sledge push, after which, thank God we didn’t have to do too many of those, because it was like, Okay, we got some good footage of this.”

On Growing Up As a Wrestling Fan:

“I was, man, yeah. Diamond Dallas Page, Steve Austin, The Rock, big time middle school and high school. Late 90s, man. I think what I loved about it too, is I was always kind of a shy, shy kid. I was a small guy from a small town. I was taught to do small things, people around me, we were just talking about, I grew up in St Louis, Missouri, but not downtown. I grew up in rural outside of St Louis, and where I came from was kind of just like, ‘Hey, don’t ruffle any feathers, kind of blend in with the herd. Don’t think of yourself too highly for the fear of maybe making other people feel insecure around you.’

And I was kind of an insecure kid, and the big guys had hair under their armpits before me, and they were bigger than me. So I was always just kind of like, well, I’m gonna go with the flow kind of guy. So I think watching wrestling, you watch the way that they carried themselves, and you’re like I see a little bit of something inside of me in that ring right now. And I think that’s why people love wrestling so much as well, because it’s beautiful storytelling, and there’s beautiful rivalries, but then there’s also the redemption stories. I was just into it big, big time, and then now I’ve kind of come back around and even more into it now than I probably was back then. And it’s been, it’s been a lot of fun.”

On a Possible WWE Appearance:

“When’s Wrestlemania? [April] So we can’t do Wrestlemania. SummerSlam is in August? I knew there’s one in August. Minneapolis in August. Me versus Logan Paul. Could be awesome. We’ll see. We got a lot of talks to happen between now and then. Obviously, they know I’m interested. I believe they’re interested. So we’ll see where we’re at.”