United States Champion, Shinsuke Nakamura recently spoke with Sports Illustrated about what he hopes to achieve with his title reign and more.

His goals for the US Championships:

“My purpose is to make the United States title like I did the Intercontinental championship in New Japan. I want to make the title different. I want to wrestle a lot of different kinds of wrestlers for the U.S. title.”

Differences between WWE and New Japan:

“WWE is a different form of wrestling. It’s different than New Japan. I wrestled a different style with New Japan, but WWE is a live TV show.”

Adjusting to life in America:

“I’m still learning. My family speaks the language better than me, and they’re trying to fix my English. It’s so different from Japanese. The other stuff—moving, adjusting, and all that, that was a little bit tough.”