WWE star and Judgment Day member Dominik Mysterio appeared on the No-Contest Wrestling podcast with O’Shea Jackson Jr. and TJ Jefferson to talk about a number of topics, including his WWE TV time in 2023 and how it was even more than Undisputed WWE Champion “The American Nightmare” Cody Rhodes.
Mysterio said, “I know, for a fact, I had more TV time than Cody that year because there’s no way… I was on NXT constantly, and I did SmackDown.”
On his busy schedule that year:
“But the grind for the time was definitely real. I’d stay in Orlando [on] Wednesday, and then — depending on if they needed me for TV – I’d fly out Thursday again, and that was constantly for, probably, a couple of months.”
On his appearance at SummerSlam 2005 as a kid:
“Growing up in the hard streets of San Diego. It’s no joke. I asked for a Mercedes, got a BMW. Rough. I had my own room, but across was my sister. I didn’t even get my own upstairs space. It was hard. I had to do my own laundry. They made me do all of that. It was crazy. I didn’t even get paid for it either. I’m pretty sure that’s illegal. It’s child labor. To make matters even worse, when I did do stuff in WWE like SummerSlam and I ended up getting paid for that, I never knew where the money went. I need to talk to her about that. I bought one bike and my mother said, ‘There goes your money.’ I did three pay-per-views, how many weeks of TV, and you’re telling me one bike and I’m done?”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
