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Wrestling is everything.

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To be a wrestling fanatic and to be a
wrestler and still doing it.

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A dream come true, teaming up with his
own son at WrestleMania. When

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everybody said I was too small, I'm
still here.

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It's tradition.

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In Lucha Libre Wrestling, that once the
mask is removed, that is the ultimate

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insult. It's a tradition that my uncle
gave to me.

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It's part of my life. It's not coming
off. This is staying on forever.

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I mean forever.

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The mask has always turned me into a
superhero.

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That mask is his life. It's been part of
his tradition. It transforms me.

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Ray Mysterio is one of a kind, a style
of lucha libre that you have never seen

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before.

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From one side of the ring to another,
it's a high gravity.

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Ray changed the game, breaking down
doors.

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He broke the blueprint of what a
wrestler should look like.

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All odds are stacked up against him, and
he beats him. Eddie and Ray were like

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brothers. They were family. His family's
everything to him.

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For him, it was the worst day of his
life because his best friend passed

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It was a hard time.

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The ultimate underdog overcoming the
Goliath.

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Every time I put on the mat, that's what
made me.

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My parents, they were both from
Guadalajara. They met in Tijuana.

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My parents had to make it across the
border illegally at the time. My mom was

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pregnant and then had to wait for me to
be born after Gutierrez.

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With my parents having me born in San
Diego, California, was automatically

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to immigrate the rest of my family. Mom,
dad, three brothers, my brothers and I.

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Paul went to school in San Diego, you
know, gave us a better education.

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It is categorized as the American dream.

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I remember as a kid when we would spend
time in Tijuana.

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Being in Tijuana for me was the ultimate
because that was the time I got to

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spend with my uncle, Ray Mysterio.

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As a family, we would go and watch my
uncle wrestle and support him. This

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street would be packed with cars on
Fridays because everyone would park down

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here and they would just walk to the
auditorium. It was my introduction to

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world of wrestling.

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Wrestling.

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Rey Mysterio debuts on January 6,
1975,

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under a mask that brought nothing of the sort
which is known today, because I had

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forbidden to be a fighter on my part
family.

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Why Rey Mysterio? Because I debuted
January 6, which is All Saints' Day

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Kings of Mexico.

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Rey I'm ching, Spanish, and Mysterio,
que a la vez esconderme de que mi

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no supiera que yo estaba involucrado en
la lucha de líderes profesionales.

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He enjoyed being at home in Tijuana,
being a

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cop, being a wrestler at nighttime.

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At the time, my uncle didn't have kids.

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I was like his adopted child.

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And for me, he was always like my second
father.

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Really cool memories for me. We would
play wrestle.

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And, you know, this is five, six years
old. I felt like I was already getting

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the spirit of becoming a wrestler
without even realizing it.

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We moved from San Diego back to Tijuana
because it just made it much easier for

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my father to go to work. My journey
really began at 5 .30 in the morning

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day, Monday through Friday.

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I would sleep already with my clothes on
that I was going to take to school the

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next morning. We crossed the border into
the U .S. School started at 7 .45 for

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me. I got out at 2 .45. Then I would
have to go to my part -time job, which

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at Godfather's Pizza. Once I got out of
work...

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make it across to Mexico, and then I
would have to get ready to go to

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school, which normally would start
between seven and eight.

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Because I was Ray Mysterio's nephew, I
got the opportunity to be able to train

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with the rest of the kids. I was eight
years old. The youngest kid after me was

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15, 16 years old, always being the
smallest and being the underdog that was

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going to just harden me up to be able to
face whatever was coming for me.

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I want to say the last time I was here
was probably 2002, so 20 years ago.

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We'd go on from 7 p .m. till 10, 30, 11.

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You know, sometimes we would just keep
it open until we got tired.

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This is our stomping ground, you know.
We had every time in the world to come

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here and just create ideas, have a good
time, kick it with the homies.

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I used to box in the Navy. I was a
bodybuilder and I was really big.

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Ray Mysterio Sr.

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He said, I'll train you.

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So when I get to that class, that's
where I meet Ray Mysterio Jr.

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That's his nephew, and he's the smallest
guy there, probably like 5 '3", 13

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years old, really long hair, really
skinny.

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We clicked immediately. I loved him. He
was like a little brother to me, and

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immediately I liked Ray.

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It wouldn't take it easy on him, that's
for damn sure. Does this guy have what

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it takes to be a wrestler?

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There were many times that my uncle was
head of the class and we would go

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through a routine. I wouldn't do it
correct or I would get it wrong, whether

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was a chop or a punch.

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He would tell me, this is how it's done.

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Edges, I mean, 9, 10 years old, you
know, taking a chop from a 25 -year -old

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man. Edges, like I felt it. It hurt.

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A lot of times I would cry, get out of
the ring and say I've had enough. This

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it. I'm done with it.

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I would go to that little corner over
there and I would just tear up, cry.

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You know, that was like my hiding spot.

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I would kind of look at the corner of my
eye, see if my uncle was going to come

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over. But that toughened me up because
he never came.

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So after almost seven years of training,
I remember telling my uncle, I'm ready.

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I'm ready to go out there and have a
match. Keep in mind, I was 14 years old.

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that was an issue right off the bat.

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You had to be 18 to have a wrestling
license, or you have to get a letter

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your parents.

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They never really saw the passion that I
had for this.

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I actually thought that I was going to
be Ray Mysterio Jr. right off the bat.

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My first wrestling name was the Green
Lizard.

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My first opportunity was outside a
church in a parking lot in Tijuana.

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I won that match, by the way. Then after
that, the name Colibri pops into my

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uncle's head. From that day on, I was
named Colibri, and that means the

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hummingbird.

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You could have mistaken me for a kid
sitting in the front row at the age of

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I was that skinny. I was that small.

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It was pretty clear from the start that
Ray was special, that Ray was different.

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The creativity that he had in aerial
art, if you will.

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Kind of a little bit of a prodigy.

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But, you know, there was nobody his size
really wrestling.

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I knew my size was an issue.

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I remember numerous times trying to have
promoters look me. Man, you're too

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skinny, kid. You gotta eat more. You
gotta drink beer.

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Subconsciously, I was struggling with
it. There was only one passion, just

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the opportunity to wrestle.

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That's all I ever wanted to do.

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This is where it all began for me. This
is where I crawled for the first time,

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where I got up and walked, and where I
ran for the first time.

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And after I ran, I ran straight out of
here and never came back until now

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because I was ready to make it big.

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A lot of memories here.

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A lot of incredible memories.

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Yeah.

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This is my neck of the woods, man. This
is where I was pretty much raised.

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Like, my surroundings were so close.

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Where I would go to wrestling school was
five minutes over here, the auditorium.

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It's right over there.

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This is where things began for me, you
know, as a little kid, wanting to be a

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wrestler like my uncle.

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When you look at the history, of Lucha
Libre in

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Mexico. There was a tradition of the
masks and the outfits.

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There was a famous mask wrestler named
El Santo who

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wore a silver mask.

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El Santo was also a movie star that
acted in movies wearing his mask.

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To this day, one of the biggest stars
ever in Mexico.

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What really stands out within Lucha
Libre, besides their high -flying

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is the mask. The mask is what makes
Lucha Libre.

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How important the mask is, it's kind of
like the heritage. It's your lineage.

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Kind of like a religion in many ways.

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Breaking into this industry in the late
80s, early 90s, was very tough.

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A lot of promoters didn't want to book
me because I looked too fragile.

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Ray's story from the start has been the
ultimate underdog.

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Everyone has had challenges that they
think are impossible.

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That's the story that Rey Mysterio tells
every time he's in the ring.

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So you start right from the bottom and
you work your way up slowly.

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What I had to do is compensate for my
lack of size and create something

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Being innovative, being different.

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This was a high -flying pace wrestling.

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He's doing things that other guys aren't
doing.

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The uniqueness, the grace with which he
did it. And I'm thinking to myself,

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what's he going to look like? What's he
going to be like in a couple years?

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I would have to convince people to use
him because of his height.

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And I was like, it's not a basketball
game. Just look at what he can do.

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And so what I did is everywhere I went,
I would say, I want you to see this guy.

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I would even bring him to bars in
Hollywood.

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We had to be over 21 years old to go in.
And he was like.

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16 years old, he'd go in there and the
bartender would be like, hey, what are

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you doing? And I'd go, hey, he's a
little person. He's very sensitive.

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Don't bring up his height.

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They would tell me, Ray, put the mask on
and don't take it off for nothing,

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right? I would sneak into the back of
the bars, and that's how I made most of

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living throughout the ages of 14 and 17.

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After the match, the bartender would be
there asking for his autograph, and I

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was like, I was right.

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Without a doubt, the mask was a
lifesaver for me. It just hid my

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So now I was starting to get booked.

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I was building my name up, going up to
the first match, when your name is

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actually on the flyer. It took me a good
three years to make it to the second

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match.

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Here in Tijuana at the auditorium.

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This holds a particularly special spot
in my heart because this is where

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Ray Mysterio Jr. was born.

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17 years old. One night we had a tag
match.

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They make our announcement.

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And then all of a sudden, my uncle comes
out. He has a mic.

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He's talking to the crowd. We're saying
we've all known him as Colibri.

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What is this? What are you doing?

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He's like, wow, it came out of nowhere.
As he's taking off my Colibri mask, he's

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putting on the Rey Mysterio Jr. mask
without showing my face.

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It hits you in a

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different way, and only another masked
wrestler would understand.

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Carrying such a name and a legacy,
knowing how special it is when you carry

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the Mysterio name, a true blessing.

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And that's how Rey Mysterio was born.

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I knew there was a world of wrestling
outside of Lucha Libre, which was the

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It was hard enough for me to make it in
Mexico because of my size and my weight.

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WWE was completely out of the question.
It never crossed my mind.

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I was 17 years old, and one of my
friends told me, hey, do you want to go

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this gym? The first day I went to this
gym, I saw him.

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And there's a connection immediately.

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I was 15.

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She was 17.

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So obviously I had this attraction for
older women.

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When I saw him and I say hi to him, he
was like super nice with me. My friend

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invited me to a wrestling show.

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And I'm like, oh, not really. I don't
want to go.

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The wrestling part didn't really click
with her.

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She thought it was for a lower class.

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That day I went to the auditorium and he
was walking in front of me. So I

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screamed to him, hey.

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And he was like, hey. And he come to me
and say hi to me.

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The last thing I was thinking of is if
she was dating someone, which eventually

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she was. Her boyfriend was in med
school, you know, and Angie was in high

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getting ready to go to college.

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After two months, I was dating Ray.

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My boyfriend, he was in Mexico City, and
I promised Ray I was going to end it

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with him, and that happened. So, only
one boyfriend.

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I remember running into her mom several
times at the beginning when we were just

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friends. I felt like she was a mean
lady.

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I'm sure that if I had a daughter that
was 17 and a 15 -year -old kid that

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probably looked like 12 was coming
around, I would...

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push him away, and she had to rewrite
this.

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Working

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at

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Godfather's Pizza, going to school,
wrestling on weekends, in love with my

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girlfriend, the grind just doesn't stop.

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Pooner!

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Conan, at the time, was a huge megastar
in Mexico.

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I would watch him Sundays on TV. He was
the Hulk Hogan of Mexico.

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He kind of gives me the scoop on what's
going on, that a lot of guys are

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starting a new company by the name of
Triple A, based out of Mexico City.

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I was like, whoa, that's cool.

223
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He's like, no, I'm telling you because I
want you to come over here. This is

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your big break.

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I was like, hey, man, how much money are
you making in school? He goes, none.

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I go, how much are you making at that
pizza place folding boxes?

227
00:19:20,990 --> 00:19:24,570
And I go, well, I think you could
probably make five times that wrestling.

228
00:19:24,830 --> 00:19:28,470
I told him, dude, my parents aren't
going to let me go over there. I'm in

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school. I was 17 years old, and my
parents were never really up to date

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wrestling progress and don't really
understand it. I go, I'll talk to your

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parents. And he goes, yeah, but I also
got a girlfriend.

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And I actually told him, if she loves
you, she'll wait for you.

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In other words, there was nothing he was
going to tell me that was going to stop

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me from reaching New Mexico. That's how
much I believed in him.

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And so I came and I talked with his
parents.

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And they let him go, you know.

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Six of us stayed in a hotel.

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We're there close to a month waiting for
this to kick off.

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We were very worried.

240
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We were worried about him.

241
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Triple A. It was a lie.

242
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It was a lie.

243
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We ran out of money.

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And we kind of all gather up in a
circle. Okay, how much do you have? How

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do you have? Okay.

246
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And we can't stay in a hotel anymore.

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I remember

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every

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Sunday using the phone and talking to
Angie and just bawling out.

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Oh, my gosh. We cry every single time.
At that time, they were living in a gym.

251
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I was tired. I was anxious.

252
00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:58,280
I was just ready to go back home. I was
ready to hang up the mask and say, I'm

253
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done. Nothing's going to happen here.

254
00:21:05,020 --> 00:21:10,300
My wrestling gear comes from a very
special place in Osaka, Japan.

255
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,340
And he goes by the name of Masahiro
Hayashi.

256
00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:16,600
I asked you, how are you?

257
00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:18,640
What time is it?

258
00:21:19,420 --> 00:21:20,860
You're crazy.

259
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:29,540
My first tour in Japan, he just popped
up one day with an outfit, you know,

260
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for me. He said, please, try it on.

261
00:21:31,940 --> 00:21:35,480
And if you wrestle with it, I made two
masks.

262
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The one you wrestle in, can you please
give to me after you wrestle? And I made

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an extra one so you can take with you.
And ever since then, we've been...

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Best of friends.

265
00:21:44,700 --> 00:21:50,440
It would be cool for us to pay a tribute
to both Eddie and Art Bar Love Machine.

266
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One outfit, USA flag.

267
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The other outfit, Mexican flag.

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Representing both countries.

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I like it.

270
00:22:06,780 --> 00:22:10,220
I will be there. Awesome. So right now
you go to sleep and rest up, and then

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tomorrow, work again.

272
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Mushy mushy.

273
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Mushy mushy.

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In Mexico City, I know he slept at a
gym, you know, not having a lot of

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not having a lot to eat is hard, but it
was almost back then, it was just kind

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of like paying your dues.

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I tell him,

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Stay over there. I'll try to send you
money.

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She was very optimistic, and she kept my
spirit up. I quit med school because I

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tried to help him with his career.

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I make like 500 pesos, less than $50.

282
00:22:50,520 --> 00:22:56,460
So I grab money for my gas, and I send
him the rest of my money every single

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week.

284
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That was a big, big relief for me until
eventually AAA kicked off and our first

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show happened.

286
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And that happens in the city of
Veracruz.

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AAA, the first show that we had, was
sold out. A full house.

288
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We actually did really good, but

289
00:23:25,890 --> 00:23:27,010
Peña was very picky.

290
00:23:27,210 --> 00:23:31,870
The owner and founder, his name was
Antonio Peña, and he goes, his punches

291
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looked really bad.

292
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,060
We're going to have to put him with the
minis.

293
00:23:35,740 --> 00:23:39,100
The minis, when they were little, they
were already like grizzled men.

294
00:23:39,900 --> 00:23:43,620
Forget that. These bitter guys are just
going to beat him up and run him out of

295
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the business.

296
00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,000
Conan pulled me aside and said, bro, if
you don't learn how to hit, he's going

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to put you with the minis. And I
remember practicing punching a wall,

298
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where I could stop the punch. I went to
Antonio Pena and I go, look, just put

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him on the main roster.

300
00:23:58,780 --> 00:23:59,780
Trust me.

301
00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:03,160
They were still rough with him because
it was a different mentality. That's

302
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:07,100
how it was back then. They gave me so
many ass whoopings, and I took. I was

303
00:24:07,100 --> 00:24:10,720
always the smallest guy in the ring. Why
wouldn't they test me?

304
00:24:11,100 --> 00:24:16,580
Live from the L .A. Sports Arena, it's
finally here, the wrestling style that

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00:24:16,580 --> 00:24:17,580
sweeping the world.

306
00:24:17,980 --> 00:24:24,580
The first time I ever saw Rey Mysterio
would have been at the AAA Worlds

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pay -per -view that was broadcast here
in the States.

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00:24:30,879 --> 00:24:35,940
In America, we all grew up with Superfly
Jimmy Snuka doing a dive off the top of

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00:24:35,940 --> 00:24:39,820
a cage, and that was the most
sensational thing we had ever seen.

310
00:24:39,820 --> 00:24:42,260
a look at Lucha Libre, it was mind
-blowing.

311
00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:51,080
An entirely new set of American eyeballs
were able to watch you.

312
00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:57,440
And Ray Mysterio Jr. has come up with
some moves that we have literally never

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seen.

314
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:14,460
I would imagine that Paul Heyman or

315
00:25:14,460 --> 00:25:19,240
other American wrestling promoters would
have been watching this new style of

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00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:26,240
wrestling. The buzz about Rey Mysterio
was so strong,

317
00:25:26,300 --> 00:25:28,000
I knew...

318
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,420
This is someone I have to keep my eye
on.

319
00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:40,740
In the 1990s, ECW was the disruptor in
the professional wrestling

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industry.

321
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:48,420
ECW couldn't afford Madison Square
Garden. Where did we play a dilapidated

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hall literally on the wrong side of the
train tracks in South Philadelphia,

323
00:25:52,740 --> 00:25:53,740
Pennsylvania?

324
00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:55,740
There is nowhere like film.

325
00:25:56,750 --> 00:26:01,490
You know how the Philly fans are, that
they boo Santa Claus? They were just

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00:26:01,490 --> 00:26:02,490
wild.

327
00:26:04,550 --> 00:26:11,070
So I was speaking to Conan, who was the
biggest superstar

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00:26:11,070 --> 00:26:17,630
in all of Mexico in the 1990s. Conan was
also a magnificent power broker behind

329
00:26:17,630 --> 00:26:18,630
the scenes.

330
00:26:18,890 --> 00:26:22,610
He asked me, he goes, those two guys
that are working for you in AAA, Rey

331
00:26:22,610 --> 00:26:25,990
Mysterio and Psychosis, I keep hearing a
lot of good things about them. And I

332
00:26:25,990 --> 00:26:29,050
go, well, with all due respect, it's
going to be very hard to follow those

333
00:26:29,050 --> 00:26:31,170
guys. They're kind of revolutionizing
the sport.

334
00:26:31,510 --> 00:26:35,170
This man has revolutionized aerial
wrestling. He is the best.

335
00:26:35,390 --> 00:26:36,970
And he says, all right, send them to me.

336
00:26:37,450 --> 00:26:39,490
Conan was always my front man.

337
00:26:39,770 --> 00:26:43,090
He was always the one that was opening
up doors for me.

338
00:26:46,220 --> 00:26:50,760
It was crazy to even walk out there for
the first time and hear the fans go,

339
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,060
Lucha, lucha, lucha.

340
00:26:55,580 --> 00:27:02,360
I remember asking Mr. Paul Heyman, is it
okay if we use a table and

341
00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:03,360
a chair?

342
00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:07,400
He said, Ray, use whatever you want.

343
00:27:09,380 --> 00:27:11,520
There's your canvas. You're an artist.

344
00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:12,920
Paint the masterpiece.

345
00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:23,760
I called Conan during their match, and I
said, I love you, I love them, I'll

346
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:28,260
take them next weekend, the weekend
after that, and any other weekend that

347
00:27:28,260 --> 00:27:29,260
can give me.

348
00:27:29,300 --> 00:27:31,260
Without a doubt, we became proud for
you.

349
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:33,620
Somersault Blitz!

350
00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:36,340
Hey, uh, Pauly, could we dive off of a
car?

351
00:27:36,580 --> 00:27:39,640
Yeah. Which car? Any car. Pick a car.

352
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:43,000
That's your canvas.

353
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:52,860
Without Conan, Lucha Libre would have
been stuck in Mexico. In Mexico, you got

354
00:27:52,860 --> 00:27:55,920
an extreme type of wrestling. It's
called Lucha Libre.

355
00:27:56,180 --> 00:28:02,660
Shortly after we were starting to feel
very comfortable in ECW, Conan gets an

356
00:28:02,660 --> 00:28:05,960
opportunity to have a tryout match in
WCW.

357
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:11,520
And this new door opens up, and it's
Conan going into WCW.

358
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:16,440
He was the guy that brought me to
Mexico. He was the guy that took me to

359
00:28:17,070 --> 00:28:20,770
Now to hook me up to get a tryout in
WCW.

360
00:28:28,530 --> 00:28:33,050
We get married in 1996.

361
00:28:35,210 --> 00:28:37,150
And I waited for him four years.

362
00:28:37,730 --> 00:28:43,190
It was a big wedding, probably 300
people. The best day of my life.

363
00:28:43,790 --> 00:28:47,250
She went to my first match, and she's
been by my side ever since.

364
00:28:47,610 --> 00:28:49,770
I truly have a lot to be thankful for.

365
00:28:53,570 --> 00:28:59,530
Eric Bischoff was in charge of WCW, and
in an effort to compete with WWE, he

366
00:28:59,530 --> 00:29:03,890
programmed WCW at the same time as
Monday Night Raw.

367
00:29:05,070 --> 00:29:10,630
I realized that the only way that I was
going to be successful was to find a way

368
00:29:10,630 --> 00:29:12,330
to be different than the competition.

369
00:29:12,570 --> 00:29:16,870
What I wanted to do was create a
cruiserweight division, a smaller

370
00:29:16,870 --> 00:29:22,710
division. The professional wrestling
industry has always showcased larger

371
00:29:22,710 --> 00:29:23,669
-life talent.

372
00:29:23,670 --> 00:29:29,510
You had the Scott Steiners, the Rick
Steiners, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Dusty

373
00:29:29,510 --> 00:29:32,870
Rhodes. You had all the big -time
superstars.

374
00:29:33,190 --> 00:29:39,760
Conan. became instrumental in helping us
identify the right talent that was

375
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:46,140
coming out of Lucha Libre at the time.
From Tijuana, Mexico, Ray Mysterio! Ray

376
00:29:46,140 --> 00:29:48,880
was even smaller than the average
cruiserweight.

377
00:29:49,120 --> 00:29:53,540
When he first got there, everybody was
making fun of him. Oh, are we having a

378
00:29:53,540 --> 00:29:54,540
minis division?

379
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:56,520
You know, does this guy have a driver's
license?

380
00:29:56,920 --> 00:30:00,460
I went to Ray and I go, bro, I don't
want to put no pressure on you. But you

381
00:30:00,460 --> 00:30:03,080
know what? You're representing Mexico.
You're representing AAA.

382
00:30:03,460 --> 00:30:06,740
You're representing little guys. You're
representing Lucha Libre. You just go

383
00:30:06,740 --> 00:30:07,940
out there and kill it.

384
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:15,780
The same guys that were making fun of
him, they were like, oh my God, like

385
00:30:15,780 --> 00:30:17,220
couldn't believe what they were seeing.

386
00:30:17,700 --> 00:30:21,740
He was inventing moves that had never
been seen before.

387
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,600
You know, I just was looking, going,
well, hold on. You know, what's going on

388
00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:29,320
out there? One of the finest
cruiserweight matches ever.

389
00:30:29,540 --> 00:30:34,380
Ray took advantage of a small size with
having crazy athletic ability.

390
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:39,400
That night, things shifted from, what
the hell is he doing here? And where is

391
00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:41,160
going to fit into? Oh, my goodness.

392
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,140
How am I going to follow that?

393
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,760
Truly one of the greatest matches we've
had this year on pay -per -view.

394
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:51,920
When he came back in, they gave him a
standing ovation in his debut match.

395
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,580
The wrestlers, unbelievable, they all
just went.

396
00:30:56,660 --> 00:30:59,980
That's a very special moment that stands
out in my career.

397
00:31:00,900 --> 00:31:05,300
I remember when Ray was this young,
impressionable, joyful kid.

398
00:31:05,540 --> 00:31:07,020
He goes, I just had a son.

399
00:31:07,540 --> 00:31:13,300
When Dominic was born, I had signed with
WCW, so I was excited.

400
00:31:13,560 --> 00:31:16,940
I was going to pass down my love for the
world of wrestling.

401
00:31:17,770 --> 00:31:20,850
And he tattoos Dominic's name on the
inside of his arm.

402
00:31:21,070 --> 00:31:22,310
Loved being in the ring.

403
00:31:22,510 --> 00:31:27,290
Had no qualms about whatever he was
asked to do. And enjoyed every second of

404
00:31:27,390 --> 00:31:28,550
And never had an ego.

405
00:31:30,090 --> 00:31:34,130
I remember I was part of the creative
process. We're going to have this

406
00:31:34,130 --> 00:31:35,570
brawl. Put it together.

407
00:31:36,850 --> 00:31:39,710
So WCW created a villainous group.

408
00:31:42,610 --> 00:31:46,610
And some of the wrestlers were there to
try to stop them. One of which.

409
00:31:47,100 --> 00:31:48,200
with Ray Mysterio.

410
00:31:48,540 --> 00:31:53,980
He says to me, he says, Nash, he says,
do you think you can throw me through

411
00:31:53,980 --> 00:31:54,839
that window?

412
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,260
And I'm like, there's glass in the
window.

413
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:04,000
And like a lawn dart throws him into the
side of a trailer.

414
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:09,320
People looked at it and they went, wow,
like Ray did such a good job on the cell

415
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,140
job. Ray goes, bonk!

416
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,140
And the whole place, all of us in the
back went, oh, God, he killed Ray.

417
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,680
I don't know what I was thinking, but at
the time it seemed cool, and I did it.

418
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:22,200
Tough as nails.

419
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:23,240
Fine.

420
00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,100
This is the first place where I was able
to meet Eddie.

421
00:32:33,820 --> 00:32:36,420
Eddie Guerrero, for the first time, I
met him here.

422
00:32:36,980 --> 00:32:39,140
Eddie Guerrero!

423
00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:41,200
I was a fan. I was just a kid.

424
00:32:41,630 --> 00:32:42,630
12 years old.

425
00:32:42,770 --> 00:32:47,710
Who would have thought back then that we
were going to meet down the road and we

426
00:32:47,710 --> 00:32:49,810
were going to share a ring together,
become brothers.

427
00:32:50,090 --> 00:32:54,130
And it's amazing how life just manifests
in a special way.

428
00:32:55,190 --> 00:33:00,510
The Guerreros are a super important
family in Mexican wrestling lore. Head

429
00:33:00,510 --> 00:33:06,190
the Guerrero clan was a gentleman by the
name of Gory Guerrero. And Gory spawned

430
00:33:06,190 --> 00:33:08,810
some really talented wrestlers.

431
00:33:09,010 --> 00:33:10,490
And he was a megastar.

432
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,000
Just an incredible talent.

433
00:33:12,260 --> 00:33:14,920
You're not going to find a better pro
wrestler than Eddie Guerrero.

434
00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:18,140
The Latino heritage is a bond between me
and Ray.

435
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:19,920
It's a tremendous bond.

436
00:33:20,660 --> 00:33:23,540
I remember when I met Ray in Tijuana.

437
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:25,400
Conan introduced us.

438
00:33:25,660 --> 00:33:31,660
I just remember this kid that always had
a smile on his face.

439
00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,340
Can't help but like him.

440
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:35,100
Eddie and Ray were like brothers.

441
00:33:35,300 --> 00:33:36,300
They were family.

442
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:40,780
Rey and Eddie could have a match
blindfolded, and it would be excellent.

443
00:33:41,140 --> 00:33:47,020
To this day, Rey Mysterio versus Eddie
Guerrero at Halloween Havoc 1997

444
00:33:47,020 --> 00:33:51,600
is easily in my top five ever.

445
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:59,380
Two of the greatest wrestlers ever. Two
Latinos going out there and just having

446
00:33:59,380 --> 00:34:03,640
an incredible match, including one of
the greatest moves that had never been

447
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:04,800
seen or done before.

448
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:14,739
He does a springboard backflip. In
midair, he ends up hooking Eddie's head

449
00:34:14,739 --> 00:34:21,360
bringing him back for a DDT. And I've
watched it probably 150 times. In many

450
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:23,440
cases, unmasking is devastating.

451
00:34:24,820 --> 00:34:29,440
If Eddie gets that victory, Ray gets
unmasked. It'd be very difficult to do

452
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,940
because the mask is part of his body
suit that he has on here. There was a

453
00:34:33,940 --> 00:34:35,540
to unmask Ray then.

454
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:40,239
Ray didn't want to do it and told Eric
Bischoff as much. I remember thinking,

455
00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:42,880
I'm not going to show up. I just won't
show up.

456
00:34:43,139 --> 00:34:47,920
I get a call from Eric that, Ray, if you
don't show up for Sunday's paper,

457
00:34:47,980 --> 00:34:49,219
you're in breach of contract.

458
00:34:50,219 --> 00:34:52,940
You don't want to know what's going to
happen after that. I was particularly

459
00:34:52,940 --> 00:34:55,780
supportive of the idea of Ray losing the
mask.

460
00:34:56,199 --> 00:35:02,120
What I didn't appreciate was what losing
that mask meant to Ray personally.

461
00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:07,340
The heritage that the mask represents in
Lucha Libre, those are all things that

462
00:35:07,340 --> 00:35:11,640
were incredibly important to Ray that I
didn't relate to.

463
00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:15,560
It was a big deal for him to lose his
mask. He didn't want to lose it.

464
00:35:15,790 --> 00:35:19,670
There was a lot of politicking going on.
I said, yeah, I don't mind doing the

465
00:35:19,670 --> 00:35:23,450
favor tonight, you know, and taking care
of Ray. If anything, I've always wanted

466
00:35:23,450 --> 00:35:25,470
to take care of Ray. He's like my little
brother.

467
00:35:27,390 --> 00:35:33,470
Day of the show, maybe a match or two
before our match, the direction gets

468
00:35:33,470 --> 00:35:34,470
changed.

469
00:35:34,750 --> 00:35:40,550
Ultimately, when it became obvious to me
what an issue it was for Ray, we had to

470
00:35:40,550 --> 00:35:43,430
relent and revisit the topic at a later
date.

471
00:35:52,460 --> 00:35:56,240
I end up winning the Cruiserweight
title. And then who would have ever

472
00:35:56,240 --> 00:35:58,740
that that was going to be match of the
year?

473
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:08,320
I was determined. I really believed that
Rey could

474
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:12,660
be a bigger star to us. Without the
mask, we need to see Rey's face.

475
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,540
You know something? It's not going to
happen. I'm not going to lose the mask.

476
00:36:16,500 --> 00:36:19,220
The match is Scott Hall and Kevin Nash.

477
00:36:19,710 --> 00:36:25,030
versus Conan and Rey Mysterio, a team
that couldn't exemplify Lucha more.

478
00:36:25,390 --> 00:36:28,030
If we win, we take Ms.

479
00:36:28,290 --> 00:36:34,090
Elizabeth's hair so they would shave her
bald. If I lose, I would take my mask

480
00:36:34,090 --> 00:36:39,910
off and... He was super bummed out. You
know, he didn't want to do it.

481
00:36:40,230 --> 00:36:43,630
But, you know, you had a job to do and
you didn't want to get sued.

482
00:36:44,270 --> 00:36:45,450
Up on the top!

483
00:36:53,529 --> 00:36:54,610
When we had lost.

484
00:36:54,930 --> 00:36:56,330
The mask does have to come off.

485
00:36:56,590 --> 00:36:59,710
And I was untying the mask from behind.

486
00:37:00,030 --> 00:37:02,690
Ray Jr., a man of his word, is going to
take the mask off.

487
00:37:02,990 --> 00:37:06,150
Pulling the mask off slowly and then
showing my face.

488
00:37:07,570 --> 00:37:08,570
Crazy moment.

489
00:37:10,110 --> 00:37:11,350
Crazy. Crazy.

490
00:37:12,290 --> 00:37:15,830
Undescribable. As a spectator, you're
watching and you're waiting for that

491
00:37:15,830 --> 00:37:19,270
to come off. And then it comes off and
it's, who the hell is that guy?

492
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:24,700
Let's leave it to Beaver. Our first look
at the face.

493
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:31,320
In Mexico, the mask symbolizes their
identity. And to lose a mask is losing

494
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:36,120
identity. Removing the mask is not just,
okay, we're going to start wrestling

495
00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:40,100
under a different name. It's shedding an
entire lore that you've built.

496
00:37:40,340 --> 00:37:47,000
He's a handsome young man there. I truly
felt like I had let my fans down, my

497
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:48,000
family down.

498
00:37:49,029 --> 00:37:50,630
My heritage down.

499
00:37:51,090 --> 00:37:54,950
My uncle, for all the hard work that he
had put in, was heartbroken.

500
00:37:57,830 --> 00:38:01,590
I was super pissed and I thought it was
bull.

501
00:38:02,050 --> 00:38:06,610
You know, I was like, this is... I'm
still kind of hot about it, but I just

502
00:38:06,610 --> 00:38:09,750
thought it was like, Ray deserved better
than this.

503
00:38:10,050 --> 00:38:13,850
Whenever someone asks me, in hindsight,
would you do that same thing again?

504
00:38:14,110 --> 00:38:15,630
No, I would have probably done it
differently.

505
00:38:16,570 --> 00:38:18,210
Or perhaps not at all.

506
00:38:19,050 --> 00:38:25,090
But at that time, operating with the
data, the information, the context of

507
00:38:25,090 --> 00:38:26,810
moment, yeah, we'd do it again.

508
00:38:36,230 --> 00:38:41,590
For the first time since I started
wrestling, I'm wrestling without a mask.

509
00:38:41,590 --> 00:38:43,150
at his face. Look at his determination.

510
00:38:44,030 --> 00:38:45,870
He is in the ring, ready to go.

511
00:38:46,070 --> 00:38:47,290
After losing my mask.

512
00:38:47,870 --> 00:38:51,190
The following night, I have a one -on
-one against Kevin Nash.

513
00:38:51,430 --> 00:38:52,790
I feel like I'm naked.

514
00:38:53,050 --> 00:38:54,450
It was just weird.

515
00:38:57,810 --> 00:38:58,410
The

516
00:38:58,410 --> 00:39:05,990
direction

517
00:39:05,990 --> 00:39:12,810
for Rey Mysterio goes a different way.
You see a real -life David

518
00:39:12,810 --> 00:39:16,610
and Goliath. The thing with Rey is he
was so fast and so quick.

519
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,800
That it made sense, it was believable,
it worked.

520
00:39:21,020 --> 00:39:22,680
And the group grew off that place.

521
00:39:27,100 --> 00:39:32,420
Him working with Kevin Nash, 6 '10",
made no sense to me at all when it was

522
00:39:32,420 --> 00:39:36,780
booked, but then when I saw it, okay,
Ray Mysterio can beat Kevin Nash.

523
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:38,660
The giant killer is born.

524
00:39:46,830 --> 00:39:48,810
That happened for a couple years.

525
00:39:49,150 --> 00:39:50,370
There is life.

526
00:39:50,610 --> 00:39:53,710
There is a future after losing a match.

527
00:39:55,470 --> 00:39:58,810
Here I am on WCW television.

528
00:39:59,950 --> 00:40:01,310
How can that happen?

529
00:40:01,570 --> 00:40:08,370
You see, it was just a matter of time
before I, Vince McMahon, bought

530
00:40:08,370 --> 00:40:09,690
my competition.

531
00:40:10,190 --> 00:40:16,210
When WWE purchased WCW, there were no
plans for Ray. Ray had a very lucrative

532
00:40:16,210 --> 00:40:22,170
career. contract with wcw and it was
more advantageous for ray to sit out

533
00:40:22,170 --> 00:40:28,070
there wasn't a lot of interest in ray
and wwe at that time same thing i've

534
00:40:28,070 --> 00:40:33,610
for years that vince wasn't big on
smaller talent when i sat down with them

535
00:40:33,610 --> 00:40:38,670
said we're just gonna let your contract
run out and i felt like i was a way of

536
00:40:38,670 --> 00:40:45,610
them telling me yes we want to work but
not now meaning maybe never He was

537
00:40:45,610 --> 00:40:48,050
still getting a faith check every week
and a healthy one at that.

538
00:40:49,890 --> 00:40:53,750
So I said, spend time with your family.
So that's kind of where we left it.

539
00:40:54,190 --> 00:40:59,070
I was pregnant at the time with my
daughter, Aaliyah. So he was, like,

540
00:40:59,070 --> 00:41:04,130
worried because he knows Vince McMahon
doesn't like, like, short guys.

541
00:41:04,790 --> 00:41:10,210
At that time, he was like, he got, like,
hate me.

542
00:41:11,110 --> 00:41:14,490
But... Please be honest.

543
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:19,560
One second.

544
00:41:20,380 --> 00:41:20,820
I

545
00:41:20,820 --> 00:41:28,320
had

546
00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:31,560
a super bad time when I was pregnant
with Aaliyah. He makes me cry a lot.

547
00:41:32,420 --> 00:41:37,480
My wife's pregnancy obviously had me a
little bit stressed. The fact that I

548
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:41,500
didn't know what the future was going to
look like, being at home, when you're

549
00:41:41,500 --> 00:41:43,660
constantly on the move, it just put me
on the edge.

550
00:41:44,140 --> 00:41:47,080
I only want to sleep and eat.

551
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:50,880
He called me fat so that it hurts me.

552
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:58,580
That's when I really turned to a big
douchebag and became really,

553
00:41:58,720 --> 00:42:02,420
really bad husband and father with my
wife.

554
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:07,420
I tried to be patient, but he was, like,
super hard with me.

555
00:42:09,720 --> 00:42:16,270
But the day of my C -section, When the
doctor pulled my baby out, he was crying

556
00:42:16,270 --> 00:42:17,930
next to me. I'm sorry.

557
00:42:18,390 --> 00:42:22,810
I don't know why I feel this. And
everything changed.

558
00:42:23,430 --> 00:42:29,090
That moment when she was born, I felt so
bad for how I was acting.

559
00:42:30,310 --> 00:42:36,610
And then, sure enough, WWE reaches out,
and JR says he wants to sit down and

560
00:42:36,610 --> 00:42:37,610
talk business.

561
00:42:38,430 --> 00:42:40,310
Vince always had this vision of this.

562
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,160
Mighty Mouse character, the constant
underdog.

563
00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:46,240
Here I come to save the day.

564
00:42:46,460 --> 00:42:49,800
That means that Mighty Mouse is on the
way.

565
00:42:50,500 --> 00:42:55,480
From the old cartoon series years and
years ago, we wanted an overachieving,

566
00:42:55,580 --> 00:43:01,320
diminutive superhero that could do
things that other guys just didn't do.

567
00:43:01,700 --> 00:43:03,660
And Mighty Mouse proves again.

568
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:07,820
I said, I want to hire you as long as we
can do some sort of sensible

569
00:43:07,820 --> 00:43:08,820
negotiation.

570
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:15,980
I remember sitting down and Angie and I
were at home watching SmackDown. All of

571
00:43:15,980 --> 00:43:21,600
a sudden, you just saw a bunch of images
like, you couldn't catch what it was.

572
00:43:23,860 --> 00:43:30,280
And it said Rey Mysterio was coming. And
it excited me because not only this is

573
00:43:30,280 --> 00:43:33,520
amazing, Rey Mysterio is on his way, but
that looks like the mask.

574
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:35,760
Please tell me the mask is back.

575
00:43:45,100 --> 00:43:47,120
One amigo, two amigos, three amigos.

576
00:43:47,820 --> 00:43:52,600
Not in a million years did I ever think
that, you know, this would be happening.

577
00:43:52,800 --> 00:43:56,420
We're going to WrestleMania, tagging
with my dad. You see that first kick

578
00:43:56,420 --> 00:43:57,420
coming?

579
00:43:59,340 --> 00:44:02,380
He's a walking cheat code, man. He's
giving me so much advice.

580
00:44:05,900 --> 00:44:12,520
I can be a little bit hard on him, but
I've learned

581
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:16,100
how to eat back and just... Let him
enjoy the moment.

582
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:20,560
They're not better than us.

583
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:21,920
That's for damn sure.

584
00:44:22,820 --> 00:44:23,820
Thank you.

585
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:27,700
Viva la raza.

586
00:44:36,340 --> 00:44:43,240
I left WCW not wearing a mask, thinking
that I'm going to come into WWE

587
00:44:43,240 --> 00:44:44,240
without a mask.

588
00:44:44,670 --> 00:44:51,070
My train of thought was lucha libre. You
lose your mask, you don't come back to

589
00:44:51,070 --> 00:44:54,730
the ring under the same name with the
mask that you love.

590
00:44:57,090 --> 00:45:02,970
It's not that we were so smart to put
the mask back on. It was just a refusal

591
00:45:02,970 --> 00:45:07,010
for us to be stupid enough to keep the
mask off.

592
00:45:07,370 --> 00:45:12,470
You just want to be part of WWE, the
power that comes with it.

593
00:45:12,970 --> 00:45:15,210
And that pushes you out into the world.

594
00:45:15,470 --> 00:45:16,470
It's tremendous.

595
00:45:16,770 --> 00:45:18,290
He is the sensational.

596
00:45:18,590 --> 00:45:19,368
Oh, yeah.

597
00:45:19,370 --> 00:45:22,310
The high flying Ray Mysterio.

598
00:45:28,370 --> 00:45:30,930
This one, that Mighty Mouse roll, Phil.

599
00:45:31,490 --> 00:45:34,330
Look at this.

600
00:45:34,710 --> 00:45:36,450
Top rope.

601
00:45:37,090 --> 00:45:39,010
Ray far exceeded.

602
00:45:39,550 --> 00:45:42,230
the cartoon version of Vince's vision
for him.

603
00:45:42,490 --> 00:45:44,130
There's only one Ray Mysterio.

604
00:45:45,390 --> 00:45:49,730
We knew we had to do something very
special on Ray Mysterio's first night.

605
00:45:50,770 --> 00:45:52,170
It's Ray Mysterio!

606
00:45:52,690 --> 00:45:54,190
He's scaling the cage!

607
00:45:55,110 --> 00:45:57,390
Mysterio! What the hell is Mysterio
doing?

608
00:45:57,790 --> 00:46:02,750
The moment that people were going to
remember was Ray Mysterio scaling the

609
00:46:02,750 --> 00:46:04,830
and diving off the top. Look at Ray!

610
00:46:05,150 --> 00:46:08,290
Look at Mysterio! Oh, my God, a
crossbody!

611
00:46:10,040 --> 00:46:14,880
I kind of hovered. He floated for a
second, and maybe that's just my memory

612
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,700
looking at it differently, but the way
he flies is just different.

613
00:46:19,660 --> 00:46:25,200
He's Spider -Man, but we don't need CGI.

614
00:46:25,540 --> 00:46:26,800
We don't need ropes.

615
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,740
We don't need any of that. Just let Rey
be Rey.

616
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:32,700
Rey is known for the Hurricane Rana.

617
00:46:35,260 --> 00:46:36,880
Frog Splash.

618
00:46:39,720 --> 00:46:40,800
The West Coast Pop.

619
00:46:42,060 --> 00:46:43,620
The West Coast Pop.

620
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:44,940
The 619.

621
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:47,520
The 619.

622
00:46:49,100 --> 00:46:54,280
Everybody had their own signature move
and a name right behind it. Fans

623
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:57,160
you with that name or that move or that
number.

624
00:46:57,460 --> 00:47:01,720
When Ray was first doing the move, we
just tied in the area code from San

625
00:47:01,720 --> 00:47:05,020
and came up with a legendary move, which
is now named the 619.

626
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:08,920
Picture a human replicating.

627
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:10,480
A helicopter blade.

628
00:47:10,700 --> 00:47:14,160
You know as he's winding up for that
move or as soon as you fall on that

629
00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:16,200
that place is going to come unglued.

630
00:47:18,660 --> 00:47:25,640
You can't help but like him when

631
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:31,480
you meet him. And I've yet for anyone
within our industry to say anything bad

632
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:32,178
about him.

633
00:47:32,180 --> 00:47:33,520
That is unheard of.

634
00:47:39,630 --> 00:47:43,570
And part of that is because he's not the
biggest guy in the world. And I think

635
00:47:43,570 --> 00:47:45,230
that makes him much more relatable.

636
00:47:51,770 --> 00:47:58,370
Ray Mysterio came to

637
00:47:58,370 --> 00:48:01,130
WWE, but he didn't come with Conan.

638
00:48:01,410 --> 00:48:05,150
And Eddie Guerrero kind of took Conan's
place as the father figure.

639
00:48:05,430 --> 00:48:07,450
Two of the greatest Latino wrestlers.

640
00:48:07,730 --> 00:48:08,730
A mentor.

641
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:11,360
a confidant, a brother.

642
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:15,380
We've got new tag team champions, the
Mysterio Guerrero.

643
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:20,260
And Eddie was a very complex, albeit
talented as hell, individual.

644
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:22,920
Sometimes Eddie was his own worst enemy.

645
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:25,580
I knew that he had demons.

646
00:48:25,860 --> 00:48:30,240
With Eddie, you know, it was a difficult
time.

647
00:48:30,500 --> 00:48:33,260
I wouldn't even want to touch the
subject.

648
00:48:34,700 --> 00:48:39,680
Eddie had alcohol issues. Eddie had drug
issues. It ruined his marriage at one

649
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:43,300
point, and he was lucky to get his
family back.

650
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:49,100
Eddie was fired for his demons and his
drug issues and showing up to work in no

651
00:48:49,100 --> 00:48:50,100
condition to work.

652
00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:53,000
But Eddie also got a second chance and
made the most of it.

653
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:56,640
The connection with Eddie was always at
a thousand.

654
00:48:56,940 --> 00:49:01,240
Every time we would see each other, hey,
you okay? Do you need anything? No, I'm

655
00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:02,780
okay. Okay, love you.

656
00:49:03,120 --> 00:49:04,120
Super close.

657
00:49:04,460 --> 00:49:09,940
They are like super, super close
friends, but Ray loves Eddie like his

658
00:49:09,940 --> 00:49:10,940
brother.

659
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:13,340
They had each other's backs.

660
00:49:13,620 --> 00:49:18,540
They understood the culture from which
they both came, and they had a great

661
00:49:18,540 --> 00:49:20,860
respect for each other as men.

662
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:26,880
We had done a show in San Diego, and he
came over to the house, and Eddie didn't

663
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:28,900
drink, so we didn't drink either.

664
00:49:29,220 --> 00:49:30,240
Angie went to bed.

665
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:33,280
Eddie and I stepped out to the backyard.

666
00:49:33,950 --> 00:49:38,470
turned the jacuzzi up, and we were just
chopping it up, just talking about life,

667
00:49:38,530 --> 00:49:45,430
about parenting, relationships,
wrestling, and we touched every subject

668
00:49:45,430 --> 00:49:47,550
night. Dad, can I ask you a question?

669
00:49:47,950 --> 00:49:48,948
Sure, baby.

670
00:49:48,950 --> 00:49:50,730
What was the big secret Uncle Eddie had?

671
00:49:53,470 --> 00:49:54,830
The custody story.

672
00:49:55,530 --> 00:50:02,440
Well, Eddie wrote a book, and in Eddie's
book, Eddie spoke about his

673
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:04,340
separation with his wife, Vicki.

674
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:09,940
And while Eddie was separated, Eddie had
a child with another woman.

675
00:50:10,980 --> 00:50:13,460
Not a lot of people knew that until the
book came out.

676
00:50:13,860 --> 00:50:14,860
Interesting.

677
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:17,900
Meantime, you've got Ray Mysterio.

678
00:50:18,180 --> 00:50:21,780
And you're seeing cute little Dominic.
Ray Mysterio!

679
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:23,740
Oh, my God! Did it for his son!

680
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:29,220
And just thinking, hmm, what if...

681
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:37,320
When Eddie was separated, he had an
affair with Angie, Ray's wife.

682
00:50:38,160 --> 00:50:39,300
And they had a child.

683
00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:42,000
But Ray never knew.

684
00:50:42,820 --> 00:50:44,500
And Ray thought it was his child.

685
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:47,660
And just Ray's Dominic is his own.

686
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:49,520
I threw it at Eddie first.

687
00:50:50,180 --> 00:50:51,860
And then I took it to Ray.

688
00:50:52,340 --> 00:50:53,340
Hey, Ray.

689
00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:58,460
This should look kind of familiar to
you. This is your son Dominic's daycare.

690
00:50:58,920 --> 00:50:59,920
Good looking kid.

691
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,000
Kind of a chip off the old block,
wouldn't you say, Ray?

692
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:06,600
The first person that approached me was
my dad. You know, he's like, hey, got

693
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:07,600
some news for you.

694
00:51:07,900 --> 00:51:09,540
I mean, he's seven years old.

695
00:51:09,820 --> 00:51:14,420
He just knew that it was cameras,
wrestling, and he loved it. They're

696
00:51:14,420 --> 00:51:15,700
pay you and you're not going to go to
school.

697
00:51:16,100 --> 00:51:18,120
I said, that's a lot of candy and toys.

698
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:19,320
You know, let's do it.

699
00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:23,320
You want some candy? I got some candy
for you. Hey, you want some candy?

700
00:51:25,180 --> 00:51:27,700
Which as I'm doing, I'm going, this is
so wrong.

701
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:29,120
Yeah,

702
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:30,618
is it good?

703
00:51:30,620 --> 00:51:36,320
You like bedtime stories? I love bedtime
stories, Uncle Eddie. Well, Uncle Eddie

704
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:43,240
promises to tell you a bedtime story
you'll

705
00:51:43,240 --> 00:51:45,920
never, ever forget.

706
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:51,500
You think I should tell everybody our
little secret?

707
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:54,840
It got a bit grimy and dark.

708
00:51:55,140 --> 00:51:57,540
I will tell Dominic the truth!

709
00:51:58,090 --> 00:52:02,650
And, like, Eddie really poured his heart
into this character.

710
00:52:05,570 --> 00:52:12,010
Ray and I, we explained to him it was
going to be like a movie. Yeah, yeah,

711
00:52:12,070 --> 00:52:15,290
I know. He always knew it was like a
show.

712
00:52:15,870 --> 00:52:16,970
Dominic! Dominic!

713
00:52:17,730 --> 00:52:20,110
Ray is not your father!

714
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:28,080
Some of the teachers were concerned
about my home life.

715
00:52:28,340 --> 00:52:32,220
They were genuinely like, I would get
pulled aside, and they're like, hey, are

716
00:52:32,220 --> 00:52:34,040
you okay? Like, is everything okay in
our home?

717
00:52:34,820 --> 00:52:36,980
I'm your father, Dominic.

718
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:40,960
I'm your papi.

719
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:46,940
His friends laugh about what they tell
him. Yes, it's probably Eddie, your dad,

720
00:52:46,980 --> 00:52:50,020
because he's super tall like you, and
your dad is super short.

721
00:52:50,300 --> 00:52:51,300
Is it true, Dad?

722
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:52,440
Is it really?

723
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:57,260
As far as I was concerned, I got to miss
school to go hang out with my dad, so

724
00:52:57,260 --> 00:52:59,200
for me it was all fun and games.

725
00:52:59,660 --> 00:53:00,920
I'm your puppy!

726
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:02,520
I'm your daddy!

727
00:53:03,700 --> 00:53:10,280
Perhaps together for the last time as a
family. One of the more salacious

728
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:11,840
stories that we told.

729
00:53:12,300 --> 00:53:16,640
Now you're with the Children and Family
Services, right?

730
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:29,220
His real dad tells the truth, not lies.

731
00:53:29,620 --> 00:53:33,900
At one point I wanted to put Dominic on
a pole or hanging over the ring and

732
00:53:33,900 --> 00:53:35,340
whoever gets him gets custody.

733
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:37,540
That was a joke.

734
00:53:38,940 --> 00:53:42,020
But it was discussed. It actually truly
was discussed.

735
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:48,780
I'm going to climb this ladder for
Dominic

736
00:53:48,780 --> 00:53:49,880
Guerrero.

737
00:53:50,700 --> 00:53:53,660
It's WWE, right? You got to have a
ladder match.

738
00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:57,560
And a ladder match for the custody of
Dominic. And you have to put the custody

739
00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:59,600
papers in a briefcase above the ring.

740
00:54:08,340 --> 00:54:11,860
Crawled me back into the corner yelling.
And as soon as that hand comes up, you

741
00:54:11,860 --> 00:54:12,860
know, there's my dad.

742
00:54:23,470 --> 00:54:26,190
And that's Angie Ray Mysterio's wife in
tears.

743
00:54:26,530 --> 00:54:29,150
I remember they asked me, do you think
you can cry?

744
00:54:29,450 --> 00:54:30,450
I'm like, seriously?

745
00:54:31,010 --> 00:54:33,470
When I saw the camera in front of me, I
want to cry.

746
00:54:33,730 --> 00:54:37,590
Her hands on her little boy and her
husband. I asked him if he was

747
00:54:37,590 --> 00:54:40,050
at one point. Did you ever think Eddie
was your real dad?

748
00:54:40,270 --> 00:54:43,730
And he started laughing and he goes, I
don't think so, but maybe.

749
00:54:44,630 --> 00:54:50,530
This should be among the worst
storylines that WWE has ever done.

750
00:54:51,010 --> 00:54:52,490
But they put it in the hands.

751
00:54:53,070 --> 00:54:59,150
of Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio. And
what we got was one of the most beloved,

752
00:54:59,490 --> 00:55:02,790
memorable matches of the era.

753
00:55:07,550 --> 00:55:10,830
Saturday night, I take a red -eye to
Minneapolis.

754
00:55:11,450 --> 00:55:15,050
I get in roughly about 5 .30 a .m.

755
00:55:17,090 --> 00:55:19,690
So I took a cab to the arena.

756
00:55:20,970 --> 00:55:24,590
One of the truck drivers pulls up and he
goes, did you hear what happened?

757
00:55:25,990 --> 00:55:29,570
I said, no, what happened? Not thinking
nothing of it.

758
00:55:31,250 --> 00:55:34,970
My phone rings and he can talk.

759
00:55:35,510 --> 00:55:38,310
He was crying, crying, he can talk.

760
00:55:45,390 --> 00:55:47,990
A shocking find at a downtown
Minneapolis hotel.

761
00:55:48,250 --> 00:55:51,110
The body of world wrestling
entertainment star Eddie Guerrero.

762
00:55:51,390 --> 00:55:55,690
I remember like it was yesterday when he
calls me that morning.

763
00:55:56,610 --> 00:55:58,150
He was crying, crying.

764
00:55:58,390 --> 00:56:02,310
He can talk, and finally he tell me,
Eddie passed away.

765
00:56:02,510 --> 00:56:08,910
For him, it was the worst day of his
life because his best friend passed

766
00:56:09,690 --> 00:56:15,830
I got my ass straight to the hotel, and
right when the coroner came in, Somebody

767
00:56:15,830 --> 00:56:19,730
asked Dr. Rios if we can say bye to
Eddie.

768
00:56:20,310 --> 00:56:23,170
They let us in the room, and we saw
Eddie there.

769
00:56:24,070 --> 00:56:27,530
And we were...

770
00:56:27,530 --> 00:56:33,610
Yeah.

771
00:56:36,070 --> 00:56:40,910
I try not to think about that moment. I
always go back to the time we were in

772
00:56:40,910 --> 00:56:45,610
the jacuzzi and just shooting, you know,
like... Two friends.

773
00:56:46,470 --> 00:56:47,470
Two brothers.

774
00:56:55,170 --> 00:57:01,710
Eddie had been through so much and had
overcome so much. Eddie was doing great.

775
00:57:02,090 --> 00:57:05,630
Eddie was just so out of the blue. Just
so out of the blue.

776
00:57:06,250 --> 00:57:13,090
I remember that day giving Ray a hug and
telling him that I loved him.

777
00:57:14,910 --> 00:57:21,830
And it was a very long day and a lot of
crying, a lot of

778
00:57:21,830 --> 00:57:22,830
tears that day.

779
00:57:23,490 --> 00:57:24,490
I love you.

780
00:57:47,460 --> 00:57:49,700
We contemplated, do we have a show?

781
00:57:50,220 --> 00:57:52,720
Do we cancel the show?

782
00:57:54,520 --> 00:57:56,160
We decided to do a tribute.

783
00:57:58,180 --> 00:58:05,080
Ray, obviously, very upset. And Ray, I
think, needed help getting through

784
00:58:05,080 --> 00:58:07,120
it, whether I think he knew it or not.

785
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:14,200
My mother had given me a cross.

786
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:20,120
The cross was meant to be given to
someone to have a better death, for them

787
00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:20,939
be in peace.

788
00:58:20,940 --> 00:58:24,720
You know, I gave to Eddie Guerrero.

789
00:58:24,980 --> 00:58:27,140
I left it in Eddie's cap.

790
00:58:30,380 --> 00:58:35,400
I want to dedicate

791
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:41,460
this Royal Rumble to my brother, to mi
hermano,

792
00:58:41,460 --> 00:58:43,500
Eduardo Guerrero.

793
00:58:50,670 --> 00:58:57,630
2006, to me, was one of the greatest
years for any individual superstar

794
00:58:57,630 --> 00:59:02,470
in the history of wrestling. And it
begins for Rey Mysterio in January at

795
00:59:02,470 --> 00:59:06,490
Royal Rumble. Paying homage to Eddie
tonight in a low rider.

796
00:59:06,890 --> 00:59:10,430
Eddie's presence was there. Felt so
good, so alive.

797
00:59:11,430 --> 00:59:14,570
30 superstars are involved in this
match.

798
00:59:15,010 --> 00:59:17,410
Rey Mysterio enters at number two.

799
00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:22,700
And in order to win, you've got to run
through 29 other guys. And if you win,

800
00:59:22,860 --> 00:59:25,500
you have the opportunity to main event
WrestleMania.

801
00:59:26,720 --> 00:59:32,460
You hear that Eddie chant going again?
The ring continuing to fill up.

802
00:59:32,460 --> 00:59:33,620
Approaching record time.

803
00:59:33,960 --> 00:59:39,280
He sets a record that night of the
longest time in history spent in the

804
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:40,280
Rumble.

805
00:59:40,920 --> 00:59:44,920
But the fact that it came on the heels
of the death of Eddie Guerrero.

806
00:59:46,830 --> 00:59:49,730
Made it much more important for Rey.

807
00:59:54,190 --> 00:59:59,450
The odds that were stacked up against
me, it was very special.

808
00:59:59,770 --> 01:00:03,170
Rey Mysterio is going to WrestleMania!

809
01:00:04,470 --> 01:00:09,170
Rey Mysterio, tremenda entrada, tremenda
noche, WrestleMania!

810
01:00:22,030 --> 01:00:27,610
The emotion from Rey that night when he
won was unlike anything I'd ever

811
01:00:27,610 --> 01:00:28,610
experienced before.

812
01:00:28,790 --> 01:00:34,110
I had chills at ringside. The biggest
underdog in the history of WWE.

813
01:00:34,670 --> 01:00:38,170
Ladies and gentlemen, dreams do come
true!

814
01:00:49,390 --> 01:00:53,490
You know, the late, great Eddie Guerrero
is looking down upon Ray, and he's so

815
01:00:53,490 --> 01:00:59,330
proud. I remember standing in the
turnbuckle and just looking up and just

816
01:00:59,330 --> 01:01:01,530
feeling that presence.

817
01:01:01,970 --> 01:01:08,070
I remember it was first row, and it was,
like, sad but happy.

818
01:01:08,350 --> 01:01:10,390
He just missed his best friend.

819
01:01:10,630 --> 01:01:16,770
For the very first time, a Spanish math
wrestler with my size and my weight.

820
01:01:17,550 --> 01:01:18,830
becoming world champion.

821
01:01:21,230 --> 01:01:22,330
I've done it.

822
01:01:28,950 --> 01:01:32,330
It was

823
01:01:32,330 --> 01:01:37,930
the high point of Ray's career.

824
01:01:38,170 --> 01:01:44,870
I think that when Ray hit that top spot,
that the audience accepted

825
01:01:44,870 --> 01:01:46,290
him and kept him there.

826
01:01:47,210 --> 01:01:51,170
kind of almost in legendary status from
that point going forward.

827
01:02:03,030 --> 01:02:09,870
I realized that my

828
01:02:09,870 --> 01:02:12,690
dad had a different job from everyone
else's parents.

829
01:02:13,310 --> 01:02:16,890
When I started going into kindergarten,
I would just get, like, bombarded with

830
01:02:16,890 --> 01:02:20,750
all these questions about his moves and
what he does and does he wear the mask

831
01:02:20,750 --> 01:02:24,570
at home. This is completely different
from everyone else's parents.

832
01:02:24,910 --> 01:02:26,510
I have seven godfathers.

833
01:02:26,790 --> 01:02:28,050
Six of them are wrestlers.

834
01:02:28,850 --> 01:02:31,730
It was definitely hard to not have him
around all the time.

835
01:02:31,990 --> 01:02:34,930
He would miss birthdays, him leaving
every week.

836
01:02:35,230 --> 01:02:38,730
My mom would let me go with her to drop
him off at the airport, and I was in the

837
01:02:38,730 --> 01:02:39,910
back window, like, crying.

838
01:02:42,480 --> 01:02:46,160
When he finally would come home, he
would go in his room and just pass out,

839
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:47,400
sleep for hours.

840
01:02:47,660 --> 01:02:51,060
But then the next day, it was like
normal. And it was just routine. He'd

841
01:02:51,060 --> 01:02:53,040
to school. He'd pick us up from school.

842
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:57,500
He's the best dad ever.

843
01:02:57,780 --> 01:03:01,460
Genuinely just loves his family so
wholeheartedly.

844
01:03:02,200 --> 01:03:04,700
His family is everything to him.

845
01:03:06,120 --> 01:03:09,580
The first time I ever saw my dad on TV.

846
01:03:10,350 --> 01:03:13,290
Jeff Jarrett grabbed a guitar and just
smashed him.

847
01:03:14,270 --> 01:03:16,850
I kept asking my mom, I was like, is he
okay? Is he okay?

848
01:03:17,130 --> 01:03:22,610
I know when something happened to him.
When he's hurt, he moves different.

849
01:03:23,510 --> 01:03:25,130
Aliyah, she gets super upset.

850
01:03:25,630 --> 01:03:28,690
Watching him is, it's always been a lot.

851
01:03:28,950 --> 01:03:31,090
Albert's taking advantage of that prone
knee.

852
01:03:31,310 --> 01:03:34,730
His knee injury, he would land wrong or
he would go to grab it. My mom goes,

853
01:03:34,890 --> 01:03:35,890
he's not okay.

854
01:03:36,270 --> 01:03:37,750
she would be able to tell right away.

855
01:03:38,030 --> 01:03:42,950
You take out the knee of Ray Mysterio,
you take out 90 % of his arsenal. The

856
01:03:42,950 --> 01:03:48,670
worst injury that I've suffered 32 years
has been my left knee. Over 10

857
01:03:48,670 --> 01:03:53,870
surgeries, ACL tear, meniscus tears,
MCL.

858
01:03:54,150 --> 01:03:59,010
My left knee has taken all the damage
over the years.

859
01:03:59,450 --> 01:04:03,330
For us, when he gets hurt, we're like...

860
01:04:04,470 --> 01:04:06,850
Because he is going to spend months with
us.

861
01:04:07,090 --> 01:04:11,630
It's not that we enjoy when he gets
hurt. You know, if he's already hurt,

862
01:04:11,630 --> 01:04:14,270
it's like six months to a year of having
him home.

863
01:04:17,670 --> 01:04:21,550
When he's going to get surgery, I always
go with him.

864
01:04:21,870 --> 01:04:24,710
I'm with him every single time, every
single surgery.

865
01:04:28,320 --> 01:04:33,360
has played into the injuries more than
anything. The high -flyer style and just

866
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:34,400
the amount of abuse.

867
01:04:35,580 --> 01:04:42,220
In 2008, I started seeing him, like,
super slow. When he was at home,

868
01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:48,420
he talks to me like, and I'm like,
something is not good here.

869
01:04:50,300 --> 01:04:54,520
I was abusing my pen medication.

870
01:04:55,260 --> 01:04:57,800
It came to a point where...

871
01:04:58,120 --> 01:05:04,980
It was numbing my whole body that I was
moving through my matches without pain,

872
01:05:05,100 --> 01:05:09,600
and that's what I thought was good about
it. But no, it was destroying my

873
01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:10,600
personal life.

874
01:05:10,640 --> 01:05:15,220
Not just numb around the knee, but it
was numb in the brain and a lot of dark

875
01:05:15,220 --> 01:05:22,020
moments where I wasn't being a father. I
wasn't doing what I was supposed

876
01:05:22,020 --> 01:05:25,660
to be doing as the man of the house, and
that hurts.

877
01:05:26,220 --> 01:05:28,340
Like I was there, but I wasn't really
there.

878
01:05:28,700 --> 01:05:33,240
And I find his pills, and I throw away
the pills.

879
01:05:33,500 --> 01:05:40,060
And I tell him, if you love your family,
you have

880
01:05:40,060 --> 01:05:42,600
to go to rehab.

881
01:05:43,180 --> 01:05:50,160
He talked with his boss, and they sent
him to rehab for

882
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:53,580
28 days, the worst days of my life.

883
01:05:54,100 --> 01:05:56,950
But at this time, The best time.

884
01:05:57,210 --> 01:06:02,870
We all fight with our own personal
demons, you know, whatever that case

885
01:06:02,870 --> 01:06:05,490
be. You have to deal with it, and you
have to pull through.

886
01:06:07,930 --> 01:06:13,970
When he come back home after the 28
days, never take any pill again.

887
01:06:14,530 --> 01:06:16,510
Never. Being sober.

888
01:06:17,050 --> 01:06:23,070
Being sober, not having to take pen
medications to ease down my pain.

889
01:06:24,470 --> 01:06:29,450
I do wake up sometimes at 5 in the
morning. I know my son keeps on telling

890
01:06:29,530 --> 01:06:35,490
Dad, you want to make sure you can walk
at the age of 70. I want to see you

891
01:06:35,490 --> 01:06:37,950
walk. And my daughter the same way.

892
01:06:38,170 --> 01:06:42,110
But in the meantime, I enjoy this way
too much.

893
01:06:43,610 --> 01:06:47,650
He shouldn't be doing that. He should be
living in a beach somewhere, retired,

894
01:06:47,990 --> 01:06:48,959
you know.

895
01:06:48,960 --> 01:06:54,080
sipping Mai Tais with a couple dogs, you
know, but he loves this, and I don't

896
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:55,440
think he's going to stop anytime soon.

897
01:07:08,600 --> 01:07:13,480
I started connecting with stem cells in
2014.

898
01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:18,640
I really saw a turnaround in my ability
to compete.

899
01:07:19,700 --> 01:07:24,740
2019 comes, more stem cells were
injected into my body.

900
01:07:26,340 --> 01:07:32,980
Ankle, both knees, one shoulder, both
elbows, and both wrists.

901
01:07:33,860 --> 01:07:40,540
And that's when I really started to feel
change that it was like

902
01:07:40,540 --> 01:07:41,540
rejuvenating myself.

903
01:07:46,580 --> 01:07:53,380
2022 comes around, and now I'm starting
to feel the wear and tear of my knee and

904
01:07:53,380 --> 01:07:55,880
a little bit more ache.

905
01:07:56,200 --> 01:08:00,300
He has severe degeneration of the
cartilage. We're going to be injecting

906
01:08:00,300 --> 01:08:03,540
cells directly into the joints to try
and decrease inflammation and help

907
01:08:03,540 --> 01:08:07,200
regeneration of the cartilages so he can
keep doing what he does best.

908
01:08:07,500 --> 01:08:12,540
I just finished getting another stem
cell treatment once again, and I feel

909
01:08:12,540 --> 01:08:14,180
great. I feel incredible.

910
01:08:14,840 --> 01:08:21,500
To have the ability to perform like I've
been performing, be able to live a life

911
01:08:21,500 --> 01:08:27,479
pain -free, that has been due to stem
cells. That has given me the longevity

912
01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:31,560
and have helped me keep going the way I
have.

913
01:08:43,319 --> 01:08:46,060
That's what we're missing the most, like
the interaction with the fans.

914
01:08:51,620 --> 01:08:57,479
It'll be 100 ,000 screaming fans waiting
to see their favorite superstars.

915
01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:02,740
My favorite wrestler is Rey Mysterio.

916
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:05,640
I love Rey Mysterio. Rey Mysterio.

917
01:09:05,899 --> 01:09:06,979
Dominic Mysterio.

918
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:11,180
Rey's wrestling with Dominic to beat The
Miz and Logan Paul. It's going to be

919
01:09:11,180 --> 01:09:14,210
epic. Are you guys ready for
WrestleMania access?

920
01:09:15,210 --> 01:09:18,529
Ladies and gentlemen, Ray and Dominic
Mysterio.

921
01:09:23,490 --> 01:09:24,890
Well, thank you for coming out, guys.

922
01:09:25,330 --> 01:09:27,490
Thank you for having us. Yeah, thank you
for the invite.

923
01:09:27,770 --> 01:09:29,270
This is Dominic's first WrestleMania.

924
01:09:29,830 --> 01:09:30,950
Tell me what this is like.

925
01:09:31,189 --> 01:09:35,670
Seeing my face on buses, it's just been
surreal, man. I'm very blessed to be

926
01:09:35,670 --> 01:09:36,670
here.

927
01:09:38,069 --> 01:09:39,250
Do we have any more questions?

928
01:09:39,990 --> 01:09:41,430
I'm playing hooky today.

929
01:09:41,930 --> 01:09:45,109
Ray, did you ever let Dominic come play
hockey to watch your match?

930
01:09:46,050 --> 01:09:47,050
Many times.

931
01:09:52,310 --> 01:09:55,390
And this is what WrestleMania is all
about, being able to connect with your

932
01:09:55,390 --> 01:09:57,330
fans. They come from all around the
world.

933
01:09:57,590 --> 01:10:01,550
I come all the way from Mexico City to
support my favorite luchador, Ray

934
01:10:01,550 --> 01:10:03,130
Mysterio. He's a small guy.

935
01:10:03,350 --> 01:10:08,090
I'm a big guy. I'm a small guy. So I
really represent in a physical way with

936
01:10:08,090 --> 01:10:09,090
Ray.

937
01:10:12,110 --> 01:10:13,630
Get excited.

938
01:10:13,850 --> 01:10:14,850
It's on the way.

939
01:10:24,830 --> 01:10:29,790
2014, I was burnt out physically,
mentally.

940
01:10:30,290 --> 01:10:36,870
I had missed a lot of birthdays, a lot
of anniversaries. I decided to

941
01:10:36,870 --> 01:10:40,470
take some time off and reconnect with
myself and my family.

942
01:10:44,650 --> 01:10:46,590
I have been doing a couple shows here
and there.

943
01:10:48,110 --> 01:10:52,130
There's a lot of great memories stuck on
this tunnel.

944
01:10:54,430 --> 01:10:55,430
Super Muñeco.

945
01:10:56,530 --> 01:10:58,150
We just lost him recently.

946
01:10:58,850 --> 01:11:05,230
Solitario and El Santo, some of the best
that ever come out of Tijuana, are

947
01:11:05,230 --> 01:11:06,230
right here on this wall.

948
01:11:07,250 --> 01:11:11,910
I got to do an event, and that's where
I'd seen Perro Guayo Jr.

949
01:11:12,150 --> 01:11:13,210
or El Hijo del Perro.

950
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:19,780
El Hijo del Perro Aguayo, who
unfortunately had his last match here

951
01:11:20,940 --> 01:11:24,120
We have a history that goes back to the
beginning of AAA.

952
01:11:24,440 --> 01:11:26,560
You know, we had very special moments.

953
01:11:27,180 --> 01:11:29,540
We were going to be meeting in Tijuana.

954
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:35,780
Perrito Aguayo was real, real, real good
friends with me and Ray. Ray was happy

955
01:11:35,780 --> 01:11:36,780
to work with him.

956
01:11:38,220 --> 01:11:42,580
Him coming back in Tijuana, where it all
started, the people were waiting for

957
01:11:42,580 --> 01:11:44,490
this. It was a packed house.

958
01:11:44,710 --> 01:11:47,410
Everyone was so excited and so into it.

959
01:11:48,250 --> 01:11:52,810
We went to the show, my kids, Dominic
and Aaliyah, myself.

960
01:11:53,190 --> 01:11:54,190
We are there.

961
01:11:55,770 --> 01:12:00,010
We go out there, and we feel like we're
having a banger that night.

962
01:12:03,130 --> 01:12:09,610
He was going to end up in 619 position,
but for some reason, he bumped and went

963
01:12:09,610 --> 01:12:10,610
out to the floor.

964
01:12:10,710 --> 01:12:11,750
I take off.

965
01:12:12,140 --> 01:12:15,380
Bounce off the back rope and swing for
the 619.

966
01:12:16,500 --> 01:12:21,560
Thank God my legs didn't connect with
his head or his face.

967
01:12:21,800 --> 01:12:24,700
He kind of went over his head because he
was louched over.

968
01:12:30,340 --> 01:12:36,180
He's for a long time hanging on the
rope. And you can realize that something

969
01:12:36,180 --> 01:12:38,140
wrong. Something's bad.

970
01:12:39,260 --> 01:12:41,400
I remember Conan being...

971
01:12:42,179 --> 01:12:45,840
ringside, you know, and kind of pulled
his arm.

972
01:12:48,860 --> 01:12:52,920
You know, I was trying to wake him up,
and he wasn't responding.

973
01:12:59,740 --> 01:13:02,840
He had to put him like on a piece of
board and take him out there.

974
01:13:10,280 --> 01:13:14,140
I drove in the ambulance with him. We
went to the hospital, which was very,

975
01:13:14,140 --> 01:13:15,140
close.

976
01:13:15,300 --> 01:13:19,040
Me and Ray went to the hospital crossing
the street from the Auditorio de

977
01:13:19,040 --> 01:13:22,020
Tijuana. We spent a couple hours there.

978
01:13:22,700 --> 01:13:26,760
And finally the doctor came out, and he
said, you know what?

979
01:13:28,020 --> 01:13:30,580
I'm sorry, but nothing we can do. He
passed away.

980
01:13:32,860 --> 01:13:35,280
Ray is recharged at the hospital's wall.

981
01:13:36,080 --> 01:13:38,040
And all of a sudden, he said, he fell to
the ground.

982
01:13:46,039 --> 01:13:52,900
I remember getting home that night. I
was holding so much

983
01:13:52,900 --> 01:13:57,840
inside. I took off my gear and I jumped
in the shower and

984
01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:01,280
bawling my eyes off, you know.

985
01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:08,040
I needed to be alone and I needed to let
all that frustration out.

986
01:14:08,670 --> 01:14:10,750
all that sadness that was happening.

987
01:14:11,690 --> 01:14:14,130
Rest in peace, Garrito.

988
01:14:17,370 --> 01:14:23,690
Ray felt, like, guilty, but he knows it
wasn't his fault.

989
01:14:23,790 --> 01:14:29,630
For respect, he went to the funeral
without his mask, like a human being,

990
01:14:29,630 --> 01:14:30,630
like a wrestler.

991
01:14:30,930 --> 01:14:36,930
One of the hardest things for me to do
was to face Errol's family.

992
01:14:37,580 --> 01:14:38,940
It was just very heartbreaking.

993
01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:46,300
I needed to get that weight off my
chest, give them my condolences, and

994
01:14:46,300 --> 01:14:48,600
they said, do not feel guilty.

995
01:14:49,420 --> 01:14:51,040
This is in God's hands.

996
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:53,340
They understand completely.

997
01:14:54,500 --> 01:14:55,780
That meant the world to me.

998
01:15:01,500 --> 01:15:03,420
It was hard for him to come back from.

999
01:15:03,780 --> 01:15:06,500
I don't know how he managed to get back
in the ring.

1000
01:15:07,740 --> 01:15:11,640
Work was work, so he had to go out there
and do what he had to do.

1001
01:15:12,040 --> 01:15:16,380
I don't know how that's not traumatizing
for him. I'm sure it is in many ways,

1002
01:15:16,540 --> 01:15:18,840
but like I said, he had to go do what he
had to do.

1003
01:15:40,810 --> 01:15:47,050
A lot of times the Royal Rumble will
allow talent that had been gone for a

1004
01:15:47,050 --> 01:15:48,850
an opportunity to come back.

1005
01:15:50,190 --> 01:15:55,130
619 from Ray Mysterio! Looks as great as
he ever looked at any point in his

1006
01:15:55,130 --> 01:15:56,130
career. It was incredible.

1007
01:15:56,370 --> 01:15:57,630
Double 619!

1008
01:15:58,630 --> 01:16:01,290
Nobody had to be convinced that we
wanted Ray Mysterio back.

1009
01:16:01,930 --> 01:16:03,070
You have to be an idiot.

1010
01:16:03,650 --> 01:16:06,670
If you know Ray Mysterio, you can't help
but love the guy.

1011
01:16:06,950 --> 01:16:09,510
One of the most popular guys in the
entire locker room.

1012
01:16:10,700 --> 01:16:16,740
I knew that my heart wanted to be with
WWE, as well as, you know, my son was

1013
01:16:16,740 --> 01:16:21,080
training to break into this world of
sports entertainment.

1014
01:16:21,900 --> 01:16:25,780
I think people were expecting it at
first. They would always ask me, hey,

1015
01:16:25,780 --> 01:16:28,540
you going to wrestle? Are you going to
wrestle? I always wanted to try it.

1016
01:16:28,760 --> 01:16:32,400
Became a teenager, started fading away
and getting into, you know, football,

1017
01:16:32,580 --> 01:16:36,820
soccer. But as I got older, it really
started to catch my attention a little

1018
01:16:36,820 --> 01:16:40,100
more. I'm like, Dominic, your death
starts.

1019
01:16:40,670 --> 01:16:45,710
training when he was six years old.
You're 18, 19 years old, and you tell me

1020
01:16:45,710 --> 01:16:46,770
you want to be a wrestler?

1021
01:16:47,650 --> 01:16:52,810
There was never any insistence from my
end to push Dominic on continuing with

1022
01:16:52,810 --> 01:16:53,589
the legacy.

1023
01:16:53,590 --> 01:16:56,130
It was going on to 19 at the time. It
was shocking.

1024
01:16:56,610 --> 01:17:03,610
But there was a feeling inside that made
me say, wow, yes, at least he's

1025
01:17:03,610 --> 01:17:04,469
going to try it.

1026
01:17:04,470 --> 01:17:05,730
We started his training.

1027
01:17:06,170 --> 01:17:09,910
With Conan and another of his
godfathers, you know, we put him to

1028
01:17:09,910 --> 01:17:13,110
testing the waters to see how much
potential he had.

1029
01:17:14,210 --> 01:17:15,890
And he did show some potential.

1030
01:17:16,270 --> 01:17:20,030
I think it's awesome that, like, you
know, he's following in my dad's

1031
01:17:35,790 --> 01:17:37,490
For me, it's very satisfying, all that.

1032
01:18:06,380 --> 01:18:11,180
It was just for one match at the time,
and it just kind of went on from there.

1033
01:18:16,460 --> 01:18:23,340
First ever father

1034
01:18:23,340 --> 01:18:25,240
and son tag team champion.

1035
01:18:25,520 --> 01:18:26,740
I was blown away.

1036
01:18:27,140 --> 01:18:31,500
Having the opportunity to make history,
you know, that doesn't come very often

1037
01:18:31,500 --> 01:18:32,259
in life.

1038
01:18:32,260 --> 01:18:33,800
Tag team champions.

1039
01:18:34,260 --> 01:18:35,260
I get...

1040
01:18:35,280 --> 01:18:36,179
I get chills.

1041
01:18:36,180 --> 01:18:37,840
I get chills because, man,

1042
01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:42,360
as a father, that makes me proud.

1043
01:18:45,600 --> 01:18:48,180
I love him to death and the fact that
he's still doing it.

1044
01:18:48,560 --> 01:18:53,280
You know, I couldn't be more proud of
him because I know he's doing this for

1045
01:19:12,270 --> 01:19:13,630
It was a special delivery.

1046
01:19:16,190 --> 01:19:18,030
Hayashi flew from Osaka.

1047
01:19:18,410 --> 01:19:19,570
Oh, my God.

1048
01:19:19,770 --> 01:19:20,950
I love it.

1049
01:19:25,310 --> 01:19:29,490
Hayashi goes out of his way to make the
best costumes ever.

1050
01:19:30,510 --> 01:19:35,910
It can be nerve -wracking, anxiety
buildup.

1051
01:19:36,310 --> 01:19:37,610
What's about to happen?

1052
01:19:52,540 --> 01:19:53,540
Exactly.

1053
01:19:54,060 --> 01:19:55,520
Happy mania. Oh, you too.

1054
01:19:56,340 --> 01:20:00,920
Come in and break the count however you
can. I got you. I'm excited that my son

1055
01:20:00,920 --> 01:20:03,000
gets to have his first WrestleMania
moment.

1056
01:20:03,240 --> 01:20:05,240
Yeah, squat down on the way. Just let it
push you.

1057
01:20:06,220 --> 01:20:09,420
And on top of that, he gets to come out
like his old man used to.

1058
01:20:11,960 --> 01:20:13,460
Being able to pop up together.

1059
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:16,060
Who's that jumping out the sky?

1060
01:20:17,260 --> 01:20:19,100
You know what's crazy, Dom?

1061
01:20:20,140 --> 01:20:24,180
At the age of 14, I wrestled in front of
100 people outside of a church.

1062
01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:29,340
To think now that I'm 47, look at the
amount of people that are going to be

1063
01:20:29,340 --> 01:20:30,340
tonight.

1064
01:20:32,780 --> 01:20:35,880
Not in a million years did I ever think
that this would be happening.

1065
01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:41,120
I'm making history, and I love it. This
is the moment we've been waiting for.

1066
01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:43,440
WrestleMania time.

1067
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:46,600
This is my nerve, and these are
predominant.

1068
01:21:23,769 --> 01:21:30,050
a dream come true teaming up with his
own at

1069
01:21:30,050 --> 01:21:31,050
WrestleMania.

1070
01:21:32,390 --> 01:21:39,230
I love you. I'm so proud of my family to

1071
01:21:39,230 --> 01:21:43,310
see my son and my husband working
together like partners.

1072
01:22:06,230 --> 01:22:09,010
It was like a shock for me. I'm like,
what?

1073
01:22:10,530 --> 01:22:14,470
It was super fun and super incredible
for me.

1074
01:22:15,730 --> 01:22:22,490
It was all of us, like closest friends,
closest family, not either

1075
01:22:22,490 --> 01:22:23,490
once in a lifetime.

1076
01:22:24,030 --> 01:22:26,550
All the stars aligned correctly.

1077
01:22:27,590 --> 01:22:29,450
Only thing we missed was...

1078
01:22:29,800 --> 01:22:32,580
beating Logan Paul in the Miz. But
that's okay.

1079
01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:38,280
Father and son WrestleMania moments
within the history book just never

1080
01:22:38,280 --> 01:22:39,280
it would happen.

1081
01:22:39,400 --> 01:22:40,400
And it didn't.

1082
01:22:46,440 --> 01:22:49,460
He's revolutionized his industry in ways
people can't imagine.

1083
01:22:50,260 --> 01:22:51,960
He brought the Lucha Libre style.

1084
01:22:53,580 --> 01:22:56,280
I don't know how many people can say
they started when they were eight years

1085
01:22:56,280 --> 01:23:00,620
old. and been doing this 30 something
years you know at the top of their game

1086
01:23:00,620 --> 01:23:05,320
to me he will always be you know a mount
rushmore he has all four heads but

1087
01:23:05,320 --> 01:23:11,080
different masks i have no idea where i
would be without wrestling major pieces

1088
01:23:11,080 --> 01:23:16,840
probably no one has a bigger heart three
generations of mysterious incredibly

1089
01:23:16,840 --> 01:23:21,580
beautiful thing greatest little man in
the history of wrestling

1090
01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:27,900
He opened up the door for Hispanics. He
opened up the door for smaller guys.

1091
01:23:28,360 --> 01:23:31,840
He broke the blueprint of what a
wrestler should look like.

1092
01:23:33,280 --> 01:23:37,920
Ray represents so many different things,
being a great father and a great family

1093
01:23:37,920 --> 01:23:42,540
man and a great athlete, and very proud
of the culture of Mexico. He's a first

1094
01:23:42,540 --> 01:23:43,960
ballot Hall of Famer.

1095
01:23:46,410 --> 01:23:47,770
He's a huge inspiration.

1096
01:23:47,990 --> 01:23:50,230
If you work your butt off, you can get
to that point.

1097
01:23:50,510 --> 01:23:52,230
Dreams do come true!

1098
01:23:52,710 --> 01:23:55,310
He's a huge inspiration for kids in
Mexico.

1099
01:23:59,070 --> 01:24:04,630
So much of the identity of Oscar
Gutierrez is Rey Mysterio.

1100
01:24:04,890 --> 01:24:08,650
That mask is everything to him, but it's
a way of life.

1101
01:24:09,530 --> 01:24:14,230
Rey Mysterio will go down as the face of
Lucha Libre.

1102
01:24:17,610 --> 01:24:24,290
Throughout this journey from day one,
I've never really had this

1103
01:24:24,290 --> 01:24:29,310
desire to become larger than life

1104
01:24:29,310 --> 01:24:35,990
or to make a certain amount of money or
travel the

1105
01:24:35,990 --> 01:24:41,650
world. There was only one passion, just
give me the opportunity to step in the

1106
01:24:41,650 --> 01:24:44,270
ring and to show my talent.

1107
01:24:44,590 --> 01:24:46,510
That's all I ever wanted to do.

1108
01:24:53,320 --> 01:24:55,260
The greatest mask of all time.

1109
01:25:03,320 --> 01:25:07,100
Angie, Aaliyah, I love you both.

1110
01:25:09,360 --> 01:25:15,320
One day, when I'm no longer here, you'll
be representing the material legacy

1111
01:25:15,320 --> 01:25:16,940
to the fullest.

1112
01:25:17,160 --> 01:25:18,300
I love you, son.

1113
01:25:19,840 --> 01:25:21,980
Viva mi raza!