WWE star Dominik Mysterio recently appeared on an episode of The Ringer Wrestling Show podcast, where he talked about a number of topics including his run in NXT and becoming the North American Champion.
Mysterio said, “It’s honestly kind of crazy.” “I don’t know how, but I managed to skip that whole thing that they do, that whole beginning part, and I was very blessed for that. To be able to do my career a little bit differently than everybody else, because everyone starts now in NXT and moves up. I started on the main roster and then came down to NXT and stayed down there for a while, so for me, that felt like my career was already so much different than everybody else’s and that just made it way more different.”
“And like, it stood out for me because like you said, I went down there to work with the younger talent but some of them are older than me. To be able to go in there and mentor them, as weird as that sounds, it’s just cool man. I’m glad that Shawn Michaels was able to give me that trust to go down there and work with them for as long as I did, because I’m pretty sure I wasn’t supposed to have that NXT North American Championship for that long, but I wasn’t gonna give it up. I feel like I had some of my best work down there, so I’m really proud of the work I did in NXT.”
You can check out the complete podcast below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
