WWE Hall of Famer Rey Mysterio recently appeared on the No-Contest Wrestling podcast, where he discussed a range of topics. He shared that when he first joined WWE in 2002, following the shutdown of WCW, he thought he might wrestle without his mask.
Mysterio said, “When the company closed down and WWE picked me up, I’m thinking in my head – ’cause I was already wrestling for two years without the mask — I’m thinking, ‘Okay, I got to figure out what gear I’m going to bring to WWE.”
On WWE wanting him to use his mask again:
“Maybe a couple of days before my debut, they were like, ‘What mask are you wearing?’ The office did. I’m like, ‘What do you mean, what mask? I’ve been wrestling without a mask.’ [WWE said] ‘Oh, no, no, Vince wants you to come back with the mask. I was like, ‘Nobody told me anything.’”
On being proud of that moment:
“That was kind of at the time a trendsetter because anyone that lost their mask in Lucha Libre, that’s it. They know who you are, you can come back maybe a year later with a different name, [and] mask. Nobody will know who you are. But for me to have lost it, come back with the same name and wear the mask, it became something cool, something new. And I’m kind of proud of that moment.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
