Dominik Mysterio had some weighty expectations on his back before ever setting foot in a WWE ring.
Being the son of the legendary Rey Mysterio is one thing, but having your debut match on a stage like SummerSlam against a four-time world champion in Seth Rollins takes things to a whole other level.
Dominik appeared in WWE as a young child during Rey’s feud with Eddie Guerrero back in 2005, but over the past year he’s been making more appearances since he began training to become a wrestler.
Now he’s been jettisoned to the main roster and inserted into a major programme, talkSPORT caught up with WWE’s newest starlet and discussed the journey so far. You can catch part one of our chat with Dominik HERE.
On his reaction to Rey Mysterio Vs Seth Rollins ‘eye-for-an-eye’
I think they were both very happy with the product. They both put on a hell of a match and it was like a match that you had never really seen an eye-for-an-eye match.
Midway through the day my dad was like ‘I can’t pin him, I can’t hit him with a move and cover him, this is completely different.’
So I think they were happy with the final product and with where the story has gone to now with me and my dad teaming up, so I think it’s really cool how this has all turned out.
On working with Brock Lesnar
He’s another man I’m very thankful for. He trusted me to hit him with the 619, the splash and the chair. So, again, I’m nothing but thankful for the opportunities that have been presented to me, but he’s one of a kind, man.
On what he’d like to do working with his dad, Rey Mysterio
I think bucket list wise with my dad would be winning some Tag Team titles. Definitely having a pay-per-view match with him at WrestleMania, just one-on-one.
I think maybe the last bucket list would be being able to induct him into the Hall of Fame as a WWE superstar. That would be out of this world amazing.
How it was broken to him he was facing Seth Rollins at SummerSlam in his debut
I didn’t know what was going on, I just go based off what my dad tells me. So we were travelling and we had just finished up a RAW and he goes ‘they want you and Seth for SummerSlam.’
And I was like ‘OK, yeah. Sure. They want me and Seth at SummerSlam. OK’ [laughs].
He said ‘No, I’m serious.’ And I was like ‘OK, Dad. Cool.’
I didn’t even think anything of it. I just thought it was a joke. Then the next day he was like ‘So, you ready? and I was like ‘For what? What are you talking about?’ And he said ‘You’re gonna wrestle Seth at SummerSlam.’
Then I thought OK, this is pretty serious now. So I already had a routine where I wake up, do my cardio and go to my training, but once I figure that out I stepped it up one more notch.
So I normally go to the in-ring three or four days a week, I upped that to four or five days a week. I had to make sure I was extra prepared and putting in extra work. But yeah, I thought he was joking the whole time! I thought he was ribbing me.
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