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00:02:12.720 Ray Mysterio.

00:02:14.160 Yes.

00:02:14.680 What inspiration did you take from Jack Black in Nacho Libre?

00:02:18.220 Everything.

00:02:19.540 Breaking into the business. 0.95

00:02:20.880 I felt very intimidated just because I was so f***ing tiny.

00:02:23.600 Not like I've grown so much after then.

00:02:25.320 It says here in 1997 you were dating Jennifer Aniston.

00:02:29.180 About a week

00:02:30.320 It hurts me to see this father-son

00:02:33.420 Tribulation happening 1.00

00:02:34.580 I'm hoping this is just a phase

00:02:35.980 Dom's in his emo phase

00:02:37.260 Let's get started I guess

00:02:48.100 I guess with this

00:02:49.240 You can't just be that

00:02:51.720 Nonchalant about it

00:02:52.800 I gotta be honest with you

00:02:54.360 I think I'm over these 11am podcasts

00:02:57.380 This is horrible

00:02:58.400 i feel completely different than usual right now i look different i feel like too 0.65

00:03:03.140 you look insane dude what is that mask you're wearing it's a well it's a luchador mask

00:03:08.880 we have we have the greatest luchador of all time in in the arena today yeah i don't believe you 0.87

00:03:15.120 yeah we do but guys welcome back to impulsive the number one podcast in the world thank you

00:03:18.440 for listening watching viewing and subscribing we're tired we're in los angeles we're luchadors

00:03:24.240 It's a WWE episode

00:03:26.060 If you saw Wrestlemania

00:03:27.780 This past

00:03:29.600 Two weeks

00:03:32.020 Who didn't see it dude

00:03:35.160 Let's be honest

00:03:35.800 Everybody saw it

00:03:36.760 It's not if

00:03:37.600 You probably saw Highlight

00:03:39.100 You probably saw Highlight

00:03:40.400 But we don't know what's gonna happen yet

00:03:42.360 Cause it hasn't happened yet

00:03:43.660 But you do

00:03:44.360 And we have

00:03:45.640 One of the biggest superstars

00:03:47.160 In the WWE

00:03:47.880 And potentially wrestlers ever

00:03:49.780 Here in the house today

00:03:51.080 I'm gonna read this intro

00:03:52.180 i was just saying it's crazy that we have them also i do want to say this you said you said like

00:03:58.980 these 11 a.m podcasts there's like people at home that go to work at like six in the morning 0.68

00:04:02.660 are they fucking serious like dude gotta get up for noon like what it just sucks you gotta be on 0.87

00:04:08.760 yeah because i don't turn on to like 1 p.m me either i'm not yeah i hate more i know i was told 0.98

00:04:13.740 it was gonna change when i got older i was told like the older i got i'd be okay with waking up

00:04:18.680 earlier and i'm just not no because even those people that are like dude i have to be at work

00:04:22.100 at six they're not talking to anybody until after lunch why would you the last thing i want to do

00:04:26.340 is ever talk to somebody in the morning the last thing i ever want to do is talk to anyone ever

00:04:30.240 ever because you're anti-social i'm anti-social it's a wwe super show wrestlemania is in the

00:04:35.680 rear view but these superstars are all timers later we have edge joining us but right now is

00:04:39.420 a man who changed wrestling forever by ushering in the wwe era of cruiserweights and is the face

00:04:44.780 of lucha libre style wrestling around the globe he is mr 619 and the newest member of the wwe hall

00:04:51.380 of fame it is ray mysterio yes what's up bro yes welcome ray dude you you hold on i gotta this get

00:05:07.160 up is amazing the mask the shirt you even walked in with strawberry watermelon prime

00:05:10.900 this is incredible wow dude it's an honor yeah so uh headphones are optional if you want

00:05:19.100 i i prefer them on podcast and this is we can just well yeah we could just do we look like a

00:05:26.300 team we look like a team right now dude we do i wanted to ask you ray because uh we thought it

00:05:31.600 would be funny if we wore these you know and like and the audience would be like oh they're wearing

00:05:35.800 luchador masks like ray are we being disrespectful to mexican culture not at all

00:05:40.200 you know how many uh uh fans go to mexico and the first thing they look for is a mask really

00:05:48.040 the ray mysterio mask too oh yeah yeah he's got that merch it's it it's part of uh it's part of

00:05:54.060 the culture man it's it's in a way it's it's you guys showing respect to to lucha libre and i also

00:06:00.440 feel okay doing it because you gave me these masks this one you skinned a hamster for yes

00:06:07.320 I killed it myself too

00:06:09.040 Looks like Kong 0.81

00:06:11.360 My old Pomeranian

00:06:14.020 RIP

00:06:15.220 But I know you gave me this mask

00:06:17.060 This Pokemon

00:06:17.540 Custom Pokemon mask

00:06:18.520 Because I found this interesting

00:06:19.840 The guy who makes your masks now

00:06:22.040 Correct me if I'm wrong 0.98

00:06:23.200 Found you in Japan

00:06:24.460 And was like

00:06:25.260 Hey

00:06:25.700 Try my masks on

00:06:27.320 And you guys have been working together

00:06:28.680 For over a decade now

00:06:30.660 96 man

00:06:31.640 I went to Japan for the first time

00:06:33.140 In 96

00:06:33.640 And

00:06:34.880 I was in the locker room

00:06:37.040 changing and they came up to me like ray there's somebody outside that that uh wants to speak to

00:06:41.880 i don't know anybody here no yeah i walk out it's hayashi who i met for the first time uh

00:06:49.000 breaks out an outfit and he says please can you wear this tonight so uh he goes but once you wear

00:06:56.020 it i made two masks the one the mask that you wrestle in just i would love to have that one

00:07:00.640 but i made an extra one i said i don't think it's gonna fit me and he made it to a team man it

00:07:05.560 fit perfect he's good and ever since man we've been working together so he when he found out

00:07:10.640 that you were around wwe he's like ah logan he goes i need to make a mask for him please connect

00:07:17.380 me connect me so he made that mask for you it's so good the charizard pokemon mask and it fits

00:07:23.060 like it's so snug yeah okay good do you feel comfortable with it super except i'm gonna take

00:07:27.780 it off did he make this did he make this one too or no that's so that's two of my uh costume

00:07:32.380 designers the guy in mexico made that one uh busio and the guy in japan it's funny because

00:07:37.800 it's the first time i've ever worn like a mask on this show it gives you a completely different

00:07:42.300 vibe totally like i can be whoever i want right now when i was reading the intro yeah normally

00:07:47.420 you know how i mess those up yeah i felt so comfortable because you were in character i

00:07:50.960 didn't feel like anyone was judging me that's a good parlay though and a good question do you

00:07:55.120 do you feel like you have two i would assume completely distinct characters one with one

00:08:01.400 without yeah i feel like when i put the mask on i turn into ray mysterio yeah but uh but then at

00:08:08.480 times i also ask myself what what's really the difference between me without the mask i just

00:08:14.580 become a family man i'm a husband i'm a father brother son you know but overall um the representation

00:08:22.200 for me of the mask has been in my family for six generations you know six decades i'm sorry

00:08:29.880 six decades and uh you know i grew up watching my uncle at the age of six years old you know

00:08:35.280 back in the early 80s so this is something i always wanted to do is that why you continue

00:08:40.660 to wear it to this day because i mean maybe i'm a little jaded but i think most people would want

00:08:46.400 that facial recognition right like like that that you're you're essentially anonymous if you don't

00:08:51.820 know what you look like under the mask are people recognizing you in public so the the time that i

00:08:56.780 wrestled in wcw from 96 to 2001 i lost the mask against kevin nash i know i want to get into that

00:09:03.280 as well okay so so that was the only time that i wrestled without the mask and i really wasn't

00:09:08.100 comfortable like i didn't want to go through that phase yeah because i really back then i really

00:09:11.760 protected my face yeah you didn't really see me without the mask or i would kind of be away from

00:09:16.420 the group when we all travel together so they wouldn't recognize me but uh when i came to wwe

00:09:21.280 it's like machine here with wwe the way they promote and just put the mask out there and

00:09:28.620 that's something that wcw never took advantage of so that's why i came back with the mask and now

00:09:33.280 it's been but also he like the mask is so him that that like technically is his face you know

00:09:38.600 what i'm saying like that became like your well that's why it's so interesting like um a lot of

00:09:43.500 these wwe superstars go through the trials and tribulations of fame i even saw uh a video of uh

00:09:52.220 rare ripley recently like just getting hounded by fans at an airport and and and it happens to

00:09:59.300 me too but i didn't know this was like a a common theme like these um these fans with posters and

00:10:04.880 pictures of you will chase you around they'll track your flight numbers and tail numbers show

00:10:09.260 up where you are and then there's like 10 of them and then they multiply when you're there and

00:10:12.520 it can get a little overwhelming yeah but since i mean the wwe fans do but like most people don't

00:10:19.720 know what you actually look like and unless they're googling a picture are you dealing with

00:10:23.440 the implications of facial recognition fame so right right before ria ran into that incident

00:10:28.280 i ran into one very similar like a month before that and they hit me up i got off of one flight

00:10:34.720 and was going to my connection i was running late yeah so uh there was like i don't know maybe six

00:10:40.900 fans with a bunch of Funko Pop

00:10:42.600 cardboards. I hear they buy

00:10:44.820 tickets to flights just to get

00:10:46.940 past the security gate, find their

00:10:49.000 superstars, and then get the tickets

00:10:50.820 refunded. Yes, exactly.

00:10:52.760 And we're talking $25, $30 tickets.

00:10:54.940 The dedication, man.

00:10:56.720 The 29E tickets.

00:10:58.620 I never deny an autograph

00:11:00.960 or a picture, but when it's

00:11:03.020 for stuff like that where they're profiting

00:11:04.940 off of it, it's just like, what happened to

00:11:06.920 the fan? You know, the fan base that

00:11:08.920 collected an autograph or just felt

00:11:10.800 felt uh pride of getting something from you whether it was a picture an autograph so

00:11:17.120 but I do get recognized man a lot uh a lot of the fans from WCW times when I wrestled without

00:11:23.780 the mask yep those are the ones that spot me out but you still you even when you took off the mask

00:11:27.940 that was that was what 20 years that was a long time ago you were you were much younger way younger

00:11:32.800 yeah in that moment when you do decide to take off the mask I imagine was not what you wanted

00:11:40.480 not at all not at all it was there was a phase going in wcw with luchadores that were being

00:11:46.820 unmasked juventud guerrera um jericho took off uh juventud's mask and then they wanted to take

00:11:56.220 off my mask at that match that i had in halloween havoc 97 against eddie and we kind of fought for

00:12:01.620 it fought for it they didn't but shortly after that is when they took it off and you know what

00:12:05.940 i actually think that if i wouldn't have lost my mask i wouldn't have been through the phase of

00:12:12.220 being back then it was a giant killer that's when i started facing the bigger guys so that kind of

00:12:17.540 opened and opened up a like a new territory new vision for for guys to see me work with bigger

00:12:24.580 talent back then i hardly did it really yeah like size wise size wise until i lost a mask and i beat

00:12:30.860 kevin the next night is when i started face bam bam bigelow scott norton yeah so that was a phase

00:12:36.320 it created like an arc like a redemption arc because you were pissed off about the mascot

00:12:39.980 i guess but i'll tell you what that i believe might have opened up the eyes to wwe to eventually

00:12:46.740 say oh we've never had small talent like gray but let's bring him over one small talent yeah

00:12:52.420 can we can we talk a little bit about uh just for the audience that isn't familiar about the the

00:12:58.120 heritage of luchador what it means to mexico and like what you know how you how you brought that

00:13:03.720 into your being like what it means to you to be a luchador so the the mask comes with the

00:13:09.660 territory it's part of our culture the outfits the capes and believe it or not back in the

00:13:15.140 early 1930s the first mask wrestler as much as i hate to hear this was an american who wore a mask

00:13:22.500 for the first time in a gringo exactly gringo local yeah so uh and then uh after that mask

00:13:30.060 became part of our culture you know um then we related a lot of our designs and our our outfits

00:13:35.100 to Aztec and Mayans you know and and with time mask became such a popular thing with with Lucha

00:13:41.900 Libre for me growing up around my uncle like I would see him and I couldn't really comprehend

00:13:48.420 what was going on i would play with him at his house play wrestle help him pack his bags we'd go

00:13:54.580 uh to the arenas friday nights when he would when he would wrestle i would get out of the car

00:13:59.200 he would put the mask on and he became somebody else and then all the fans stormed him autograph

00:14:05.640 picture like fuck this is really cool i want to be part of this he took off the mask nobody knew 0.91

00:14:11.340 who he was wild crazy dichotomy and then you kind of followed it up do you feel like a added amount 0.99

00:14:18.640 of pressure obviously you don't know what the other side of it feels like but do you feel like

00:14:22.060 an added amount of pressure like having a culture and a country kind of like on your back when you

00:14:26.860 go to work every day like people that you have to kind of like really show up for my my passion for

00:14:32.000 this sport has been very big from day one so i've never really especially at a young age i really

00:14:37.520 didn't feel pressure at all i felt pressure carrying the name ray mysterio jr that was a lot

00:14:43.820 of pressure for me because it wasn't just given to me i had to earn it you know after three years

00:14:48.480 of being in the business my uncle one day presented me with the name without expecting it so that's

00:14:55.000 when i really felt pressure of representing the name the legacy of the mysterio and then after

00:14:59.760 that everything just started to come natural man and and opportunities were starting to open up

00:15:03.640 and i would just i would feel very confident working under pressure what inspiration did

00:15:09.520 you take from jack black and natural libre everything go to church every sunday

00:15:15.160 dude i that's awesome i did i did some lucha libre wrestling as part of a show that i was

00:15:23.460 doing called logan paul versus yeah back in the day and it was so hard it was it was so hard i

00:15:29.540 actually tore my mcl doing it that was the first time i tore my mcl how long ago was this

00:15:33.160 six seven years ago okay but now you've been in the wwe ring so now you yeah yeah well this is

00:15:39.780 what i wanted to ask because i remember at that time feeling like physical i i had the high school

00:15:45.460 wrestling i i like to work out but i remember doing lucha libre and entering thinking oh i

00:15:51.460 feel like i could be good at this right then i started taking bumps and they hurt so bad so i

00:15:56.660 don't really know like how i'm doing it now or is it a different style and i guess my question is

00:16:01.740 Like, what is the difference between traditional Lucha Libre wrestling and WWE?

00:16:06.100 I'll tell you, the difference is the rings.

00:16:08.300 Like, the rings in Mexico are stiff.

00:16:10.640 Very stiff.

00:16:11.820 Like, you get a little bit of padding, you get ply boards underneath, and the leather mat.

00:16:17.020 That's it.

00:16:17.840 So, growing up with that style and in the rings that I wrestled in day in, day out, was just crazy. 0.95

00:16:24.180 Sometimes the ropes were shit, and we had to make the best out of it.

00:16:27.900 but it puts you through this uh through this test where let me see what i can pull off tonight with 0.95

00:16:34.040 this ring and every ring was different because we never had the same ring compared to wwe where

00:16:38.720 we get the same ring every night yeah it's a huge difference and the support that this ring has hey

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00:17:53.380 Now, back to the program.

00:17:54.820 but overall the style is

00:17:56.820 much more fast paced

00:17:58.860 much more fast paced and a lot of

00:18:01.120 a lot of athletic

00:18:02.980 ability which I've seen you rock

00:18:05.160 recently so you know and there's something that

00:18:06.760 that springboard you did with Ricochet 0.97

00:18:08.340 oh yeah that was fucking crazy 0.96

00:18:10.960 crazy yeah 0.89

00:18:12.760 thank you yeah I mean

00:18:14.820 I get to do a lot of like fun crazy

00:18:17.100 moves in WWE

00:18:19.280 but I mean you've done all of them

00:18:20.980 before I have that one I haven't

00:18:23.160 done that one

00:18:24.640 yeah how'd it feel uh it was the landing hurt because i landed wrong i i didn't i i thought

00:18:31.300 he would hit me a little harder right and i could flat back it yeah and i didn't i i went

00:18:36.700 but back head yeah and also i suck at tucking my chin right you're what you do is what you do is

00:18:42.400 so difficult there's so much to think about and i haven't fully been able to comprehend all of it

00:18:47.320 at once and so i turn my mcl i have my head i gotta like think about what i'm doing before i

00:18:53.000 just send it you know when you overthink it is when you normally start to get injuries uh when 0.63

00:18:59.440 you do when you do shit natural just it just flows but like that move that you did with ricochet

00:19:03.840 there's really no right way to land i mean that's what i found out after the fact yeah yeah they 0.96

00:19:10.020 told me after they're like that's one of those ones where you just you know priest for impact

00:19:14.040 okay man but but but ray this is my other question you've been doing this for so long

00:19:19.260 right you're entering the wwe hall of fame this weekend congrats congrats that's actually that's

00:19:24.620 an applause i'm sorry that's awesome dude and and and and we watched your documentary uh uh we loved

00:19:31.100 it and and you really are a legend in the sport but as far as like your health goes and protecting

00:19:35.260 your body especially with the moves you do how have you been able to do it for this long so

00:19:41.100 right around 2014 my body was broken down our schedule was so heavy and i feel like i needed

00:19:47.020 to rest so uh i kind of separated a little bit from from the grind of every day i ran into stem

00:19:54.320 cells stem cells nice and ever since then you know that's been my that's been my family youth

00:20:00.220 no way where where do you go to columbia so i the first couple times that i did it was actually here

00:20:05.580 in la yeah and then uh i got connected to the place in columbia because accelerator yeah it's

00:20:11.500 bioxcellular yes and and they shot me up like full body both knees ankle shoulders biceps

00:20:18.880 i have carpal tunnel so wrists uh my spine they drew out fluid from my spine oh you're talking

00:20:25.580 about millions of dollars a stem cell dude that's a lot they're very expensive yeah they are very

00:20:30.460 expensive but if if you think about it how much does kobe kobe how much does uh lebron lebron

00:20:35.300 spend on on uh that article that article that said he spent a million dollars a year or more

00:20:40.320 just on his health really affected the way that i think about my vessel yeah you know mental and

00:20:45.680 physical um man health is really well what's the value i mean what's the value of it it's

00:20:51.220 everything if you don't have it you have nothing so it's like you you should what's your engine

00:20:54.920 what's that runs every day like a like a healthy person wants 10 000 things a sick person wants

00:21:00.460 one yeah crazy right do you do uh systemic uh uh stem cells as well where you just get them

00:21:06.500 into your bloodstream, or is it always localized?

00:21:09.040 No, we do IV.

00:21:10.500 So the treatment that I did was for a week,

00:21:12.600 from Monday to Friday, and in that week,

00:21:15.380 I was doing hyperbaric chamber.

00:21:17.100 Everything.

00:21:17.940 I was doing IV every other day.

00:21:20.380 I was doing, and then one day was just all the shots heavy.

00:21:24.380 Knees, like I said, shoulder.

00:21:25.720 All the local stuff.

00:21:26.560 The spine was very interesting,

00:21:27.820 because with the spine, I'm glad I didn't see the needle,

00:21:30.960 but the needle was about this big.

00:21:32.120 Yeah, I heard that one hurts.

00:21:33.460 It actually didn't hurt.

00:21:34.320 Really?

00:21:35.160 It didn't hurt.

00:21:36.160 numbed the area so they numbed the area they drew out the fluid they they uh replaced it with stem

00:21:41.280 cells and they told me you might feel these effects for the next 24 hours headache like um

00:21:47.880 deep headache um fever you might feel achiness all around your body and i felt exactly everything

00:21:54.640 and it was for a period of 23 hours after that it was completely gone not 24 hours 23 23 23 yes

00:22:01.400 so i have a question did you have any areas on your body that like you had basically like kissed

00:22:07.880 goodbye prior to really because i because i have an ankle that is done dude he barely has that

00:22:13.660 barely like they want to take it out and fuse it because there's no cartilage left and tony robbins

00:22:17.820 we had on the show is a big stem cell guy yeah yeah and he was like dude before you do that i

00:22:22.960 want you to try stem so like now hearing it from you again too like it i really want to so everybody

00:22:27.700 that that i hear speak about stem cells and that i've tried it is always positive i've never heard

00:22:32.940 anything negative from it but uh my knee my knee is i probably had like 13 or 14 surgeries like

00:22:40.760 constant every other year i would snap my ligament my knee's already bone on bone from the inside 0.74

00:22:45.260 yeah that's insane crazy so to to be able to wake up just pain free every morning is fucking crazy 0.74

00:22:51.820 now on top of that to be able to go in the ring and perform at the level that i'm performing like

00:22:56.180 what's going on here?

00:22:57.100 Why is it so good?

00:22:59.480 Why is it so fluid?

00:23:00.560 Watching you live is one of the most insane things I've ever seen.

00:23:05.580 Because when I started to get actually in the WWE universe,

00:23:09.780 I started paying attention more to the matches.

00:23:11.860 And, Ray, the things you do are insane.

00:23:14.600 Like, you're a high flyer.

00:23:16.620 You take out the biggest guys and you're doing all these crazy flips and tricks.

00:23:20.160 What's the practice of those actually look like?

00:23:24.360 Like, are you in a training facility, like, doing these crazy twist flips and hurricanranas on dudes? 0.59

00:23:31.860 Now that I get older, if I want to try something new, I kind of simulate it and kind of walk through it. 0.98

00:23:39.240 But back in the day, like, and that's the one thing that I've always believed that has made me stand out.

00:23:45.460 I've always been very creative with my moves.

00:23:48.160 And especially in the time that I broke in, nobody was doing things like I was doing.

00:23:53.360 so um i would kind of visualize it and if it was possible let's do it never rehearsed it

00:23:59.940 what never rehearsed it yeah just send it yeah put it out there this is the craziest

00:24:05.620 put it out there everyone's answer is the exact same to that no one no one like practices anything

00:24:11.020 they just go and do it they're like if you're gonna get hurt you don't want to get hurt practicing

00:24:14.620 it get hurt doing it which is crazy getting hurt sucks yeah i know you're talking about 13 surgeries 0.57

00:24:21.420 on your knee like like man if i get injured i'm incredibly demotivated like i'm crushed 0.79

00:24:27.840 basically how can you go through that time and time and time again and step back into the ring

00:24:32.560 knowing likely you're going to get injured again believe it or not during that time when i've had

00:24:37.500 my surgeries the grind was just so heavy we'd come home for one day we'd come home on a wednesday

00:24:43.720 per se uh rest thursday and then friday back out so there was really no time to rest so when you 0.96

00:24:50.460 got hurt you would take that like oh shit i got some time off now this is good okay this is good 0.90

00:24:56.660 i get to chill i get to relax i get to recoup you know charge my body up again and be with the 0.99

00:25:01.160 family so that i i had that that uh flip side to it yeah like your like your son for example dom

00:25:07.140 dominic that's a that's been an interesting relationship to watch yeah the past uh you

00:25:12.380 know especially especially recently i hate it right yeah i was just interested i hate to see 0.92

00:25:17.080 No, no, I hate him.

00:25:19.240 When I saw Dom turn heel, 0.56

00:25:21.680 because, you know, the Dom that I know

00:25:23.080 is the Dom that I wrestled at WrestleMania.

00:25:25.260 Last year. Crazy.

00:25:26.920 Just a sweet boy.

00:25:28.720 You know, Dom, he was respectful after the match.

00:25:31.780 And then all of a sudden now,

00:25:33.420 he's turned into...

00:25:34.780 He's out of control.

00:25:36.240 He's turning on his family. 1.00

00:25:38.740 He's talking shit about his mom. 1.00

00:25:40.060 His mother. Crazy. 1.00

00:25:41.660 Has Dom taken it too far? 0.93

00:25:45.500 Because, like, I don't...

00:25:46.740 i get it but also it hurts me to right to see this father-son tribulation happening in front

00:25:54.460 you you also can you also have some of it in your own i was about to ask you how are you how are you 0.98

00:25:59.220 with your parents i whoop my dad's ass right like i'll write on the regular you know show him who's 0.94

00:26:04.820 really boss right right and it's not him it's me see you're you're putting uh dominic's mind 1.00

00:26:12.500 if he's listening to this he's like oh shit greg paul is fuming at home right now he's gonna throw 0.88

00:26:17.960 you down the steps greg paul's watching this podcast like you guys have a great relationship 0.98

00:26:22.780 though fantastic relationship yeah yeah yeah it's great and but it wasn't always great which is maybe

00:26:27.380 why i kind of relate to what's happening right now with you and dom and it affects me a little

00:26:33.040 more like it always it hasn't always been great we have our trials and tribulations but but my dad

00:26:37.860 and I one thing in my life that I can do behind the scenes is argue with my parents you know

00:26:43.800 everything else is public but that's the one thing I'm doing behind the scenes you and Dom

00:26:47.760 well Dom to you anyways is doing everything so publicly yeah was that is this I guess I'm just

00:26:54.880 wondering how this came about and where your head is at in the in the beef it came from a bit of

00:27:02.820 jealousy for my son but he knows man i'm giving him everything like the lifestyle that i wish i

00:27:08.120 would have had as a kid you know but uh at the end of the day right now when you said it was just

00:27:13.140 the phase that we went through i'm hoping this is just the phase that dom and i are going to

00:27:17.560 dom's in his emo phase it's not a phase mom has he ever said that no he hasn't he might now

00:27:25.920 it's not a phase dad no he's in love he's in love with that raya oh wait is that is that a thing

00:27:32.120 are you like keeping up with him or have you like disowned him man i've caught him a couple times

00:27:36.200 i don't want to say mom i don't want to say anything yeah i just keep it to myself can we

00:27:41.720 but you you struck him you struck dom this last week out of him man and he ducked too i was going

00:27:49.300 for the eye and he put his head down it was about time he was talking he was talking smack to his

00:27:54.340 mom and his sister like he just i don't know man at what all right he was he was from a very young

00:28:00.740 age a mama's girl mama's boy yeah mama's boy oh like always he didn't like to hang out with me

00:28:07.280 he always stuck around mom mom mom mom always so uh to see him i get it if he wants to be like

00:28:13.980 that with me but when i see him act like that with his sister well you know brother and sister

00:28:18.080 always bump heads constantly has it gone too far like when is it too far like it really makes me

00:28:26.800 It really makes me sad, dude.

00:28:28.140 I don't want to see Dom just trashing you every week.

00:28:32.620 Maybe I put my mask on the line against his hair,

00:28:36.300 which is some lucha culture.

00:28:38.940 And if I lose, I take my mask off.

00:28:40.540 And if he loses, he shaves his hair off.

00:28:42.720 No way.

00:28:43.960 That might be interesting.

00:28:45.840 What do you do it? 0.99

00:28:48.440 He talks a lot of crap, so why not back it up? 0.99

00:28:51.620 Is that happening? 0.99

00:28:52.580 No, but I will pitch it out.

00:28:54.940 Oh, my God.

00:28:55.780 Yeah.

00:28:56.000 I'll challenge him straight up

00:28:57.700 See if I lost my hair

00:28:58.900 I don't think it'll come back

00:29:00.320 You can go to Turkey

00:29:02.180 I went to Turkey

00:29:04.020 It's not that expensive either

00:29:05.480 No you can get it done real cheap there

00:29:06.740 But you guys have a match at Wrestlemania

00:29:10.760 Yes

00:29:11.320 So we'll already know the results

00:29:12.920 But man I hope

00:29:14.620 I just hope that feud ends

00:29:16.920 I think a father and a son should be

00:29:18.460 I really do

00:29:19.820 I also want the audience to come back 0.91

00:29:23.020 I don't like him as a heel

00:29:25.420 dude i i do he's like he's it's just i think he's really good he's such a sweet guy dude

00:29:29.980 yeah but he's just watching me get trashed by everybody yeah but he's good as a heel dude 0.60

00:29:33.400 he's a he's a dick as a heel he's good so to see his character come out now and to have 0.99

00:29:40.740 seen him grow up for the past 23 years is like where is this fucking person coming from yeah 1.00

00:29:47.380 like it's it's just i've never seen that in him so he is a dick as a heel 0.99

00:29:51.820 look now that i'm in the wwe i'm also in a video game i guess if you've never played a wwe game 0.86

00:29:59.740 before this is the one to play wwe 2k 23 is back even stronger it is the highest rated sports game

00:30:06.540 of the year here's some news i'm in the game which is sick and i have a character rating of 84 on the

00:30:13.040 main roster it doesn't really even seem that great it doesn't it doesn't and you know what

00:30:19.700 Nah, because, okay, so this is like a sponsored ad read,

00:30:22.780 but I'll just say it right now.

00:30:24.760 Bad Bunny has the same rating as me.

00:30:26.440 Nah, come on.

00:30:27.260 What's good?

00:30:27.880 He is one of the greatest entertainers.

00:30:30.060 No, he is.

00:30:30.640 He is.

00:30:31.360 He's a phenomenal performer, but I've been wrestling, bro.

00:30:36.100 I've been frog splashing, bro.

00:30:38.160 I tore my MCL, and he got the same rating as me.

00:30:41.000 I'm just saying.

00:30:42.000 Just double check, because I don't know if that's fair to me, man.

00:30:46.300 Anyways, the shoot day for the commercial was awesome.

00:30:48.920 we couldn't be proud

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00:30:50.840 and Rey Mysterio

00:30:51.440 on Impulse of this month

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00:30:54.900 at SummerSlam 06

00:30:56.160 as part of the

00:30:57.000 Showcase Matches feature

00:30:58.140 and Rey has two main models

00:30:59.580 in WWE 2K23

00:31:00.820 current Rey

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00:31:04.500 from Halloween Havoc 97

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00:31:06.940 our favorite

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00:31:08.700 for all editions

00:31:09.480 celebrating his 20 years

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00:31:11.000 the 2K Showcase

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00:31:14.460 on John Cena this year

00:31:15.340 takes on an unprecedented

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00:31:17.860 putting players

00:31:18.560 in the shoes of Cena's toughest competitors

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00:31:34.440 Back to the show.

00:31:35.160 There was a Royal Rumble

00:31:36.140 where you entered second, right?

00:31:39.340 For those of you who don't know the Royal Rumble,

00:31:41.000 you entered second, 30 guys come out,

00:31:45.120 and you it's basically elimination process of elimination you entered second and you won

00:31:50.720 you beat 27 people that was incredible that was like was that the moment that ray mysterio came

00:31:57.920 on the map as a real contender i think that was the moment that the fans really wanted to see

00:32:03.680 something happen for ray mysterio and and unfortunate but it was right after eddie had

00:32:09.040 just passed Eddie passed in November and shortly after you know talking January Royal Rumble

00:32:19.160 happened and for some reason the fans would see Eddie through me you know and that was a connection

00:32:27.280 that that I made with the fans during that phase and it was it was such a cool thing man because

00:32:32.100 Eddie and I were very very tight and I wish you would have had a chance to work with him you would

00:32:38.680 enjoyed i i i've heard that so many times i've heard that so many times and all i can watch now

00:32:44.360 are like clips of him yeah um and man he was i mean so talented right and i i just don't obviously

00:32:51.000 don't know what he was like behind the scenes but even a better person really more in the ring one

00:32:54.920 of those yeah one of those guys dang man really cool but yeah that was that was a it was a turning

00:33:00.280 point for me in my career you know that's when i got the recognition of of being one of the

00:33:06.280 the top dogs in the company and i felt really good i felt i felt honored and and a lot of pressure

00:33:11.300 that the ball was being handed to me and i had to run with it now is that is that the only thing

00:33:16.300 that like changed after eddie's passing like was there anything else that you how did that how did

00:33:20.400 that affect your your entire like thoughts about your career as well as like life in general

00:33:24.920 um because it wasn't an accidental death it was personal something happened with him he had a 0.98

00:33:31.600 uh, heart attack, you know, it, it, it doesn't affect you with the perspective of, of, oh shit, 0.99

00:33:39.820 it might happen to me. If something would have happened to him in the ring, that's when really 0.93

00:33:43.520 things get scary. But because it was, uh, it was a death that was outside of the ring.

00:33:50.160 It just, it affected all of us very, very much, man. It was, he was a vibe of the locker room

00:33:55.300 constantly, you know? And then when he was gone, it was like, we felt like something was always

00:34:00.560 missing and still to this day even though we have a new generation on board he was just such a great

00:34:06.800 uh teacher and such a great person great heart do you want to hear a wild story um

00:34:17.600 in our match

00:34:20.640 when i went up to the top rope for the first time and i did the shimmy the shimmy that's that's

00:34:28.320 to eddie guerrero right and i think that was the first time i i just remembered him and did this

00:34:35.440 move and it was the first time i felt the entire crowd react to something i was doing in a way in

00:34:41.920 a way that just lit everyone up yeah and then went right into this move so it's crazy how you know i

00:34:47.920 didn't know eddie and i'm i've been turned on to his stuff recently but it's crazy how someone can

00:34:55.280 and have that type of impact years later

00:34:58.900 with someone who didn't even know him at all.

00:35:02.880 I channeled him, and to this day,

00:35:06.480 he's still able to have that type of effect

00:35:08.800 on 60,000 people watching.

00:35:10.640 Yeah, it's insane, man.

00:35:13.120 Eddie, I think what's really cool

00:35:15.960 is that the fans know when you have talent

00:35:19.060 and recognize it, and of course,

00:35:21.280 just like the style of wrestling has changed

00:35:23.000 throughout the years, the evolution,

00:35:24.660 you know fans changed too you know and from seeing the bigger guys you know doing just power moves

00:35:31.560 now they were getting into watching uh some lucha style matches with mass and you name it you know

00:35:38.840 so the game was changing overall wcw then wwe when eddie got that break in wwe it's like oh wow he

00:35:46.420 just he captured just an entire fan base off of that and he became the king man yeah

00:35:53.000 nah he's so good is there is there anything uh that you still do like now to kind of like continue

00:35:59.860 on his legacy or even anything like behind the scenes like that you that you continue to carry

00:36:04.500 from him like in your life like but i always before i hit the ring i always send out a prayer

00:36:09.480 and i always ask for his protection you know with the lord yeah so it's really it's cool to know and

00:36:18.560 And even when I walk out, fans still see that attachment

00:36:23.160 after so many years have passed.

00:36:25.420 I'd never been to his grave until a couple years, 19,

00:36:31.300 I believe we did Royal Rumble in Phoenix.

00:36:33.600 That was the first time I went to his grave.

00:36:35.220 And oh my God, it hit.

00:36:37.140 And I just never wanted to go.

00:36:38.660 I wanted to remember him how I remember what he was.

00:36:43.380 But it was very heartbreaking, man.

00:36:45.840 And the more I think about him, the more I miss him.

00:36:50.480 So I just keep him in my heart constantly and just take life day at a time.

00:36:57.600 I'm sure a lot of people share that sentiment.

00:36:59.640 Yeah.

00:37:00.080 Does it, does it make you like proud?

00:37:02.200 I guess last question on it, like to,

00:37:04.000 to see how important and impactful his life has been and how it continues to

00:37:09.800 impact the organization as well as the lives of the fans and knowing that

00:37:13.840 someday obviously inevitably you will have a a similar impact and a lasting legacy in this world

00:37:19.780 that's crazy i never put it that way but uh i know that for a fact dominic was seven years old

00:37:26.360 when we did the the storyline for the custody of dominic you know that was that was crazy

00:37:32.460 remember seeing that yeah okay 2005 would that be allowed in this era i don't see why not that

00:37:40.740 that was insane these guys were battling for the custody of his child

00:37:45.060 in front of the world if you've never if you've never seen it check it out but just the story

00:37:50.800 leading into it that you know eddie's eddie's character was just so passionate man and he

00:37:55.480 if he had to be a bad guy he would turn into the most baddest bad guy and if he had to be a good

00:38:01.320 guy he was a the greatest good guy ever but i truly believe that because of that moment of

00:38:07.820 having Dom around for a couple months and traveling with me

00:38:11.920 and doing angles in the ring, shooting promos backstage, vignettes.

00:38:18.080 I think that kind of sparked the passion within Dom.

00:38:22.260 And then we kind of drifted away.

00:38:24.240 So I actually thought that Dom didn't want to be a part of this world

00:38:27.800 until the day came where he asked me,

00:38:30.620 Dad, I want to see if I can break in.

00:38:32.020 But I think that was due to the connection he had with Eddie and myself.

00:38:37.820 you know so that that's how deep eddie brings you into this world you mentioned wcw a lot

00:38:44.120 and then y'all got absorbed into the ww universe was there was there any major differences that

00:38:50.060 you felt when uh wcw was acquired yeah um wcw was mainly focused on the talent that was already

00:38:59.800 made like it was very hard for them to to visualize or to create new talent new superstars

00:39:05.780 which is something that wwe has always done you know uh marketing wise the mask was never marketed

00:39:12.380 in wcw the way it should have been we would have made a lot of money and you talk about like uh

00:39:17.740 the merch merch yeah they never sold masks in wcw oh wow you know which is crazy and you know 0.86

00:39:24.580 you talk about video games back then uh nintendo 64 that that was like the shit back then everyone

00:39:29.820 who's playing it everybody loved the wcw versus nwo but uh that's the big big comparison with ww is 0.56

00:39:38.460 like they know how to move things and they know how to do everything yeah they're they're one of

00:39:43.980 the most like nimble adept organizations that i've ever worked with i mean i guess it makes sense

00:39:48.840 they're a multi-billion dollar company and media conglomerate but man they're so good what kind

00:39:54.000 of numbers you running on that merch does that has that mask made you rich

00:39:57.200 you go you can buy a ray mysterio mask what sucks is i don't get any cut off of it when

00:40:09.360 they sell them in mexico so if you ever go to mexico don't buy them down there because i'm not

00:40:13.460 getting any commission they sell it freely yeah i guess i guess that's the which is crazy right

00:40:20.020 yeah no control but but i don't mind that you know cease and desist brother i'm i'm so

00:40:26.020 down like with the people that are trying to make money for a living that i've been to places like

00:40:31.260 in cancun and and they might recognize me and i'll end up signing like a couple masks that they have

00:40:37.560 hanging up there yeah oh it might make a little bit more money on it you know okay do you get

00:40:41.660 that do you get down there often uh yes yeah wait where are you from uh born in san diego and grew

00:40:47.620 up in Tijuana got it yeah got it it says here um in 1997 you were dating Jennifer Aniston

00:40:53.880 about a week

00:40:56.240 it's just completely false but funny what did you what did you think about that was

00:41:01.800 great National Enquirer remember that yeah wait what happened the actual context of it

00:41:06.880 they just they just threw it out there just a random dude that's that I'm sorry that's

00:41:11.340 fun crazy like dude they just picked two they're like yo who is it this week all right we got

00:41:16.320 Ray Mysterio

00:41:18.080 Jennifer Aniston

00:41:19.240 what do you guys think

00:41:20.280 we like it

00:41:21.040 yeah run it

00:41:21.700 let's do it

00:41:22.240 what

00:41:22.860 was that like your

00:41:24.620 was that like a

00:41:25.520 a little taste of

00:41:26.880 like that kind of

00:41:27.900 mainstream side of things

00:41:29.060 would you

00:41:29.540 would you ever want to be

00:41:30.480 in that world

00:41:31.080 no not really

00:41:32.320 it's so weird

00:41:33.120 yeah yeah

00:41:33.640 I like having my privacy

00:41:34.840 man I'm very low key

00:41:35.900 you know

00:41:36.800 and when I chill with my family

00:41:38.580 I don't

00:41:39.480 I don't like to

00:41:40.220 get mugged

00:41:41.460 or 1.00

00:41:41.800 be signing shit 0.99

00:41:43.520 like even when I vacation a lot 1.00

00:41:44.960 I get mobbed sometimes so much

00:41:47.820 by the staff of the hotel

00:41:49.580 and the hotel is taking care of us

00:41:51.680 but sometimes it gets a little too much

00:41:53.600 which I don't mind when I'm working

00:41:55.380 but when I'm on my time off

00:41:56.720 the staff stuff

00:41:58.880 I've

00:41:59.500 cause I'm like you I'll take a picture with anyone

00:42:02.260 I love talking to my fans

00:42:03.600 if I'm rushing through the airport and I'm gonna miss a flight

00:42:06.040 probably not but like this staff stuff

00:42:08.300 in certain areas

00:42:09.920 can get like

00:42:11.120 okay

00:42:12.420 uh they help you take your bags to your room right you're in your room you just got there

00:42:18.180 chilling and the bag person's like yo you might ever get a picture you've been flying for 14 hours

00:42:22.480 i'm in my room finally i got you when i come down but that's the side effects of fame man

00:42:28.860 but without your mask i would i would assume it's a little more chill it is until they they

00:42:37.460 recognize me yeah and and usually like when i vacation with the family it's hard to not

00:42:43.120 recognize certain tattoos that really spot me out yeah you know in mexico it's that mexican

00:42:49.060 tattoo across my stomach as soon as they see that they pray are people are people surprised by like

00:42:54.860 your stature or the way your face looks like i i was i was excited to see what you look like

00:43:01.460 that's a great you know when i was first coming in here yeah so when i was breaking into the 0.75

00:43:05.760 business i felt very intimidated being around the locker room just because i was so fucking tiny 0.52

00:43:11.060 i was like 5'1 not like i've grown so much after then 5'1 about 115 20 pounds and you know i just 0.96

00:43:21.360 felt like shit because constantly the other uh wrestlers would stay on me bro you gotta gain 0.98

00:43:28.180 some weight you gotta work out you gotta eat you gotta drink beer anything to fucking put some 0.99

00:43:32.280 wait on it so so that was that was a thing going on for me up until probably when i lost my mask 0.86

00:43:40.460 you know because i would every now and then hear comments from front row in wcw i can whoop his 0.89

00:43:46.740 ass oh you know which is crazy but now that's completely thrown out the window like there's a 0.87

00:43:53.240 sign of respect to a team with everything yeah which is really cool yeah for sure yeah it's

00:43:58.560 found to happen when you become like a legend like yourself i think i think definitely people 0.99

00:44:03.520 you got to respect people look at you otherwise yeah exactly you're gonna look like a dumbass 0.84

00:44:07.640 but they but they weren't always so this scott hall and kevin nash thing do you hate those guys 0.88

00:44:11.900 still to this day you sure love them yeah because they were like dude nwo was like they were almost

00:44:17.700 like it was like maga at the time yeah like they just like you know what i'm saying like

00:44:22.340 they they just took your two gringos took your mass bro that's like you got no bad blood

00:44:28.460 no not not at all if anything uh you know it happened it happened but again that phase of my

00:44:35.060 career lifted me up yeah yeah you know i became a different person now i'd never wrestled without

00:44:41.120 a mask and i was like fuck this is gonna feel weird man now they're gonna see my face but uh

00:44:46.080 it just felt so natural my talent is is in the ring for sure it's not the mask so i just felt 0.97

00:44:52.520 very comfortable doing what i was doing and again to recreate ray mysterio into a giant killer 0.93

00:44:58.940 like man this is cool i got i can wrestle the big guys now i don't have to be doing a lot of shit 0.54

00:45:03.080 you know now i just got to do one or two cool moves get the pin one two three yeah it's also 0.58

00:45:09.140 just like another one of those like symbolic parts of your life where something that at the time

00:45:13.500 you're looking at is like such a bad thing and like you're pissed off about yeah turns into

00:45:17.740 something great do you have do you have any other instances in your life of failures that ended up

00:45:22.300 just like teaching you something or just being turning into something that that changed your

00:45:26.540 life for the better so uh during my big run in in wwe and after so many surgeries i got hooked on

00:45:35.340 painkillers for a very long time and my wife caught me one time we were on vacation she

00:45:42.540 She saw that I was just out of it completely.

00:45:47.420 So she gave me an ultimatum.

00:45:48.840 She goes, so when we get back home, you can either take your pills or you can take your family.

00:45:55.480 You choose.

00:45:56.660 And that really opened me up, man.

00:45:59.000 And it made me a stronger person because I remember getting back home to San Diego.

00:46:03.640 Flew the TV the next day.

00:46:06.520 Spoke to Vince.

00:46:07.620 And I told him, boss, I need to check myself in.

00:46:12.540 you know um i'm gonna need some time mom he was cool with it he was like it takes a man 0.67

00:46:17.580 fucking uh man up to to what you're doing so so that that was a big life changer for me you know 0.67

00:46:24.860 and different perspective of life and and the appreciation of family and the support of my wife 0.97

00:46:30.700 you know it's crazy yeah she's been there from day one went to my first match a real day one

00:46:36.140 through dating yes oh my gosh that is so cool yeah man that support system is so important

00:46:42.020 and i'm so happy for you that you have someone like that in your life especially when you have

00:46:48.640 the lifestyle that you have now it's so important to know who you can trust and

00:46:52.260 i imagine that wasn't easy for her either oh to give you that ultimatum right you don't want to

00:46:57.840 you want to put that on on someone you love but you were really going through it yeah it was bad

00:47:04.340 yeah it was bad and and to be able to recognize it and and check yourself in and put everything

00:47:11.160 aside and move on with your life to a a positive note you know it was it was uh it was crazy i

00:47:19.860 really enjoyed that phase of my life because i i learned so much of what not to do yeah did you

00:47:25.220 how long did you go inpatient for uh i was there for 30 days how much so i as someone else who's

00:47:31.220 been through inpatient rehab i've never told the story either i was gonna ask yeah that's amazing

00:47:35.440 i was gonna ask you that i've told the story that's you you i i talk about mine more than

00:47:41.640 some want to hear but i try to talk about as much as possible but you you gotta really understand

00:47:46.200 how big of an impact you have when you when you show people who are uh in your audience and fans

00:47:51.340 of you that you've gone through that type of thing and made it out to the other side i mean it's so

00:47:54.860 important and so impactful for you to tell that story thank you for telling that no no that's

00:47:58.620 Amazing.

00:47:59.460 Another thing that was really big to me was my kids were young.

00:48:02.720 Dominic was maybe 10 years old, 12.

00:48:05.940 My daughter was very young.

00:48:07.360 So to see them walk into visiting ground on Sundays,

00:48:12.360 it was just great, it really hit me at that point.

00:48:16.480 Those were the best.

00:48:17.320 Man, yeah.

00:48:18.740 Why am I even in here?

00:48:19.720 I shouldn't be in here.

00:48:21.160 So you went through it one time, and then after that-

00:48:23.420 That was it.

00:48:23.960 I was gonna say, do you have to watch that demon at all?

00:48:27.660 Nope. 0.89

00:48:28.200 its ugly head no no it's crazy i was i was really bad prior but once uh i eliminated all that toxic

00:48:36.840 mindset clean i feel like the painkillers with wrestlers especially back then it was heavy yeah 0.59

00:48:45.180 this isn't the first time i've heard that that addiction like creep up on you yeah i uh i try

00:48:50.700 to avoid um the prescribed painkillers that they give me after each surgery right solely for that

00:48:58.100 reason like i'll deal with the pain even if it hurts just because i have an addictive personality

00:49:03.560 and i know i don't want to it's like slippery i think i think people are like also learning a lot

00:49:09.620 about that space by way of what's going on in america and like obviously it's just become just

00:49:15.040 such a massive problem and so people are starting to look at opiates and painkillers a little bit

00:49:20.140 differently i mean there was a time you know 20 years ago where you know you stub your toe and

00:49:24.740 they're like here's oxyconin yeah you know and and now see me next week exactly exactly and now

00:49:29.700 pain and and pain tolerance and pain treatment and the way that it's looked at has changed so

00:49:35.260 dramatically thank god because a lot of people won't have to go through like what you and i

00:49:39.040 went through which was just having a battle that and a lot of times battle it in a in a silo until

00:49:44.440 you told someone you were battling that demon by yourself and that's the worst part of it is not

00:49:47.880 having anyone to be able to talk to about it and being embarrassed or shamed or

00:49:51.960 you know feeling like there's some sort of stigma and that's why these conversations are important

00:49:56.340 bro like you don't even you don't even realize that you just opening up and talking about that

00:50:00.580 right there like somebody watching this episode is probably going to go talk to their family about

00:50:04.300 it now you know what i'm saying like you really just impacted somebody's life by telling that

00:50:07.820 story so continue to do that thank you thank you so after i had uh after i went to rehab

00:50:12.560 probably three years later i ended up getting another surgery and it was probably the worst one

00:50:17.920 of all and i remember i was in mad pain what was the uh uh i tore my acl i uh strained my mcl

00:50:27.840 they said pretty much my knee was was dangling by one thread so it was pretty bad i remember i

00:50:34.160 wrestled in san diego that night and uh we were the main event i was wrestling uh alberto del 0.98

00:50:39.020 real and first two minutes of the match i felt it snap and i was like ah shit i'm fucked up i'm 0.96

00:50:46.820 fucked up like nope let's let's go home let's take it that's it and i was like no no no let's 0.93

00:50:51.720 keep going we kept rolling but then afterwards i probably damaged it more yeah for sure 10 12 0.97

00:50:57.160 minutes that that i stayed in the ring oh my god had the surgery came home and doctor gave me

00:51:03.760 painkillers and i took one and throughout the night because they had a drill two holes uh

00:51:11.220 my knee and i remember it was the worst pain i've ever felt from the surgeries that i've had

00:51:17.120 in the past and i would tell my wife no i'm not gonna take anything i'm not gonna take anything

00:51:21.660 you know and uh control my pain as much as i could until she said you know what i can't stand

00:51:26.400 watching you like that so it was pretty bad i remember i was balling out with

00:51:30.140 she actually had him so she controlled everything okay but i didn't want to take yeah yeah that's

00:51:37.180 always such a tricky thing because i've been through that a couple times after like i got

00:51:40.340 hit by a car when i was riding my bike in 2013 and i had to go into the emergency room and you

00:51:47.000 know i was i had it was in a horrible concussion and i had road rash all over my body and they're

00:51:52.160 like dude like what are you doing and i'm like i can't i can't take anything right but the thing

00:51:56.420 about it that it it kind of makes you feel like a warrior like you you you like push so hard and

00:52:01.920 you're like dude i i know that anyone else in my shoes would take the painkillers because you

00:52:06.300 shouldn't be feeling like this ever but you just you like try to invoke that like warrior mentality 0.97

00:52:10.820 and like push through it that's exactly how you brought but knees are knees suck dude man is that

00:52:16.140 the worst is our knees the worst injury dude well i've never had any other injury besides my knee

00:52:20.440 well i tore my bicep uh but it wasn't as bad uh my knee has been like the worst injury out of

00:52:27.300 terrible 34 years of being in the business oh so that's good though yeah it's crazy but uh yeah

00:52:32.500 knees are knees are bad ankle my so when i did my first stem cell treatment in in columbia

00:52:37.320 my ankle was fucked up and they shot up some stem cells in the ankle the space is just so narrow 0.68

00:52:43.440 and tiny that my ankle just went any leg stuff in general just sucks yeah i i because if you do 0.92

00:52:51.640 something with your arms or like neck you at least you can walk you can sort of get somewhere

00:52:56.380 yeah i find that like i don't know with leg stuff standing walking it's all your weight i know it's

00:53:02.220 your full body that's why ankle so what's wrong with your ankle so i i shattered it in 2008 uh

00:53:08.080 because some kids tried to rob me and uh i broke like every bone in it like i broke uh the both

00:53:15.860 bones and then like the radial so they had to put uh screws and plates in it and i also gained like

00:53:22.160 80 pounds after that because i was getting off uh drugs yeah and all that weight huh so much weight

00:53:28.240 on it that it ground down all the cartilage so there's just no cartilage left in my ankle

00:53:33.240 and so it's just but when i wake up in the morning i get out of bed it's from the first step i take

00:53:37.860 until it's the last step of the day it's just pain 10 out of 10 pain all day long 100 you should

00:53:42.800 have against your stem cells i gotta go so you don't have any cartilage no cartilage zero dude

00:53:46.980 it's gone it's pretty much similar to the knee you know you don't have cartilage in your knee

00:53:50.640 and and it starts grinding exactly you know uh probably the ankle might be worse because the

00:53:55.540 most of the weight goes straight down there but uh i truly feel that stem cells will

00:54:01.140 kick you out right away yeah yeah so what why do you push it back uh i don't know because

00:54:09.320 the thing about the medical world that's weird is like for every opinion that pushes you one way

00:54:14.120 there's a different opinion and that's actually one of the toughest things about like health

00:54:17.640 mental health physical health and everything is like there's never really like a real playbook

00:54:22.320 one doctor has this opinion the other one has a difference so i've had some doctors say like you

00:54:26.280 have to get fusion where they remove the ankle joint and just fuse the the bone to the leg bone

00:54:30.480 to the foot right and you lose all vertical motion on your foot and ankle which is insane

00:54:35.400 i don't want that but then like you know tony and you now have said like go get stemmed so i'm gonna

00:54:40.080 look into it now that tony show was a long time ago too i know yeah exactly that's what are you

00:54:46.000 waiting i'm a bit of a procrastinator what are you waiting well we're just always doing shows and

00:54:51.100 like monday through sunday we should make it we should make a trip we should make a trip to

00:54:56.460 colombia and do a we'll do a show there i'll tell you oh do it i'm sure there's a that actually

00:55:01.200 would be a great show have you been to colombia i have not no medellin is beautiful man that was

00:55:05.740 my first time i didn't know what to expect you know you hear the public bar stories and you get

00:55:10.600 there like wow yeah like a valley okay so i i figured it'd be really pretty and i thought about 0.98

00:55:18.180 going a lot but recently jake's boxing coach went bj and got shot in the fucking leg arm robbery 0.87

00:55:26.780 really arm robbery at a traffic light yeah they came up to to his side window did this make the 0.97

00:55:31.720 news i don't know no one's talking about it besides bj who's like laughing about it in the

00:55:36.900 hospital he's like man it's all gonna be good like no no dude you got shot in the leg and he

00:55:41.940 only got shot in the leg because i think he like deflected the gun hit his thigh like i heard about

00:55:47.900 this story.

00:55:48.360 That's why I'm asking

00:55:48.860 if it made...

00:55:49.900 No,

00:55:50.100 no one even,

00:55:51.120 no one's talking about it.

00:55:52.240 That's crazy.

00:55:53.160 It's wild.

00:55:54.200 But that's,

00:55:54.720 but Pete,

00:55:55.400 I want to make sure

00:55:56.580 we like talk about this

00:55:58.440 for a second

00:55:58.720 because people go there

00:55:59.800 all the time

00:56:00.280 and they have great trips there.

00:56:01.560 I mean,

00:56:01.640 I have friends that go there

00:56:02.700 in Cartagena

00:56:03.360 and all these other...

00:56:04.500 Cartagena's beautiful, right?

00:56:05.260 Yeah, beautiful cities in Colombia.

00:56:06.180 I have friends

00:56:06.720 that go there too.

00:56:07.540 You got shot.

00:56:08.280 You got shot.

00:56:09.940 It was an isolated incident.

00:56:11.000 Now,

00:56:11.180 what part of Colombia?

00:56:12.640 His thigh.

00:56:15.060 No,

00:56:15.500 I don't think,

00:56:16.280 I think it was like

00:56:17.240 bogota i don't know i don't know but medellin looks so so chill i think he was wearing his 0.97

00:56:23.640 watch around you know okay no he was that he's definitely track he said yeah but damn man i'm

00:56:32.200 not trying to catch a straight of the thigh i need my thighs for walking podcast story true

00:56:37.240 make a sick story put it in the all right so then we also can just do it there's other countries

00:56:41.080 that do it uh tijuana i just went to tijuana i don't know about that i mean then you're talking 0.96

00:56:45.800 about the same type of shit you guys have been dealing with a lot of not if we go with ray if 0.97

00:56:50.160 you're yeah throw with me we're good oh yeah yeah step some voice trip let's go i love i gotta say 0.98

00:56:55.520 i love i love mexico i talked to kev about it kev's our in-house uh mexican representative

00:57:01.300 you know he's from guadalajara yeah my parents are from guadalajara yeah you know so there's a

00:57:08.900 little connection there yeah i i love i love the cult i love the culture of the food and and you

00:57:13.660 know like obviously as a as a gringo that goes there you know like i i go to to the you know

00:57:19.480 predictable places yeah of course i've spent a lot of time in cabo but i i i would like to see

00:57:24.300 more of the country because it's just it's just such a rich culture yeah kevin makes us aguachile

00:57:29.840 every every fight night man it's famous green or red better yeah green better yeah the kid

00:57:37.160 the shrimp like cooks in the lime juice yeah i didn't know that you didn't know that i didn't

00:57:42.840 know that he explained to me like the acid it's very very wait so wait so what's the difference

00:57:46.940 between that and like a ceviche uh got it got it uh dude i love all that stuff it's a tradition

00:57:53.700 it's it's tradition if you go if you go to cabo they won't bother you at the hotel some of the

00:57:58.640 hotels there they won't bother you i spent uh a new year's in cabo 20 right during the pandemic

00:58:04.420 and uh which spot it was i went to the hard rock got it hard rock in in cabo got it um we usually

00:58:10.980 stayed at a uh at a resort and um people were cool man yeah people were really cool just the

00:58:18.120 weather wasn't what i expected uh for for being in a in a beautiful place like cabo it was actually

00:58:24.420 chilly it was cold it does get cold yes win there yeah cabo's weird because you can't like

00:58:29.920 people would think they would go there to beach and swim but you can't really swim there because

00:58:33.660 it's so rocky yeah and and windy it's like you as soon as you walk in the beach it's like deep 0.84

00:58:37.880 right away right yeah drops yeah yeah and there's like sharks and shit yeah cancun is where i spend

00:58:42.460 most of the time and and just last year or actually we celebrated this year in uh dominican 0.93

00:58:49.120 republic punta cana dr yeah yeah yeah awesome i haven't been there yet either well shit ray

00:58:54.360 you have an amazing life you've done it all wwe hall of fame this weekend i think that's all we 0.96

00:59:00.580 got for you but i'm excited for your match hopefully beat dom's ass me too me too we'll

00:59:07.440 see man when you enter the wwe hall of fame finally what what kind of emotions you think 0.83

00:59:14.880 that's going to bring up in you it still really hasn't hit in i mean so this is something that

00:59:19.940 that i that you desire as a as a superstar yeah i hope one day man they induct me i hope one day

00:59:28.460 i get to be part of that legendary uh lineup that they have and like it's crazy to me that

00:59:36.020 it came to me while i'm still active and not even in plan of retirement so that's i'm truly honored

00:59:44.360 man this is a blessing i i could not ask for anything more in this lifetime because as a kid

00:59:50.960 growing up you know i went through my struggles i grinded it out i left my house at the age of 17

00:59:57.760 to to follow my dream my career wrestling and then doors just started opening up you know and

01:00:05.600 i was making it through in different phases of my life and and different uh countries until

01:00:12.240 i hit the top of the top wwe and now you think okay what's what's next here world title

01:00:19.780 shared the ring with my son became tag team champions like all the accolades that you

01:00:24.780 can possibly imagine are already there the last one hall of fame and now it's here so

01:00:31.120 I'm so cool

01:00:33.600 Truly blessed man

01:00:34.580 Seriously congrats

01:00:36.680 Thanks for coming on our show bro

01:00:37.880 Massive inspiration for everyone

01:00:40.040 Stem cells

01:00:41.320 Ray Mysterio ladies and gentlemen

01:00:46.620 If you have not seen this man wrestle

01:00:48.220 Make sure you watch him wrestle

01:00:49.600 It is unlike anything you've ever seen before

01:00:52.200 We got Edge coming up next

01:00:53.880 I mean that was an episode

01:00:55.800 A good one too

01:00:56.740 I wasn't expecting him to get

01:00:58.160 Should we pretend like he's

01:01:01.100 still here no i think this i think it's all right to be oh yeah all right great last this was gonna

01:01:06.620 be a double episode with ray mysterio and edge two legendary wrestlers but we were just thinking

01:01:13.380 like that's a standalone he delivered so much just incredible and he's still here

01:01:17.760 what happened to your tats uh that's kevin but uh yeah thanks for watching this episode guys

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