Chasing Glory Recap w/ Rey Mysterio – Wrestling With His Son, WWE Return, Retirement Rumours, More!

Lillian Garcia welcomes Rey Mysterio to the show.
Mysterio points out that as the years go by time seems to go faster and faster. He notes that his son is now 21 years old and is training to become a professional wrestler as well. He’s just finishing a training program with Lance Storm in Canada, and then Mysterio plans on sending him to Houston to train with Booker T.

Mysterio says that people often ask him what’s left for him to accomplish in the business, or if he has any more goals before he retires. He points out that he really wants to step in the ring and wrestle with his son, and once he does that he’ll be able to come full circle and that’ll be a very important moment for him.
He notes that he never forced his son to pursue wrestling. If Dominic chose to pursue wrestling then that’s great but if he went another route, Rey would have been happy with that as well. He points out that his wife studied medicine years ago and now their daughter is studying medicine as well. So in that sense, their son followed Rey’s footsteps and their daughter followed Rey’s wife’s footsteps.

Mysterio points out that he had a great support system growing up, and he became accustomed to working with older people at a very young age. He thinks this resulted in him “growing up” very quickly. He lived somewhat of a double life as a young child, as he’d cross the border every morning to go to school in San Diego, and after school was over he’d cross over back into Mexico and would do all his homework before going to wrestling school.
He notes that he’d train until 11-11:30 at night and then get up to school again in the morning. He enjoyed it very much and wouldn’t change a thing about it, and even during the days that he didn’t enjoy it he still learned something and that made him the man he is today.

Mysterio says he’s very saddened by all the events that are taking place at the United States/Mexico border. He says he can’t imagine what would have happened if he would have been stripped from his parents all those years ago. The living conditions in Mexico are up and down, but it’s not terrible. He still travels in and out of Mexico at least once a month.
Mysterio talks about the struggles that his size presented. He informs that his size never bothered him until he started training to wrestle. His size became an easy target for his coaches who used his small stature as a criticism towards him. He didn’t think that was fair but he never let those criticisms get to him. He never saw his size as an issue and he did everything he could to make other people see things that way as well.

Garcia points out that Zelina Vega has said in the past that Mysterio inspired her to keep working when other people criticized her because of her size. Mysterio says it’s so nice to hear those kind of stories and he’s so proud of that. He takes great pride in being someone else’s motivation to keep going when things get tough.

Mysterio says he was happy to return to WWE at last year’s Royal Rumble when the opportunity presented itself. From the moment he left a few years ago he assumed it would be a temporary departure. He needed to take a break and rest, and he needed to be around his family for a while. He wanted to be a part of things that he missed during the years that he spent on the road with WWE.
He says it’s amazing to be back in WWE now and it’s cool to see a lot of new faces. He admits that he would not be able to wrestle the schedule he had a few years ago because his body is beaten down from years of work. When he goes through the curtain he gives everything he has because he doesn’t want to cheat his fans.

He has changed his training, eating habits and supplementation in an attempt to lengthen his career. His body hurts but he’s doing everything he can to treat his body well. He doesn’t feel like he needs to accomplish anything more during this run. He has had a very fulfilling career and has accomplished more than he ever thought he would, and he continues to wrestle because he still loves it.

As far as retirement goes, he’s definitely getting close to shutting it down in the next couple of years. He certainly doesn’t see himself wrestling five years from now, but he still feels like he has a little something left to give to the audience right now.
That sums up this week’s episode of Chasing Glory. You can listen to the show yourself anytime here, and I’ll catch ya next week for another recap!