Dominik Mysterio has admitted that, while he always loved professional wrestling, he wasn’t a fan of being in the spotlight as a child.
Speaking on JaackMaate’s Happy Hour, the WWE star reflected on growing up around the business and appearing on WWE television during his father’s legendary rivalry with the late Eddie Guerrero.
“I hated it, while furthermore, not wrestling, I loved wrestling. I loved watching it — i just didn’t enjoy the attention on me.”
Continuing the joke, Dominik recapped the storyline from his own perspective.
Dominik furthermore revisited the iconic 2005 custody storyline, jokingly embracing the long-running wrestling narrative that Eddie Guerrero was his real father. In a separate but related matter, rey Mysterio is not actually my real dad, “For the people that aren’t aware. It is actually Eddie Guerrero.”
“There was a custody contest for me in 2005. Basically I was living with Rey Mysterio and his family and then Eddie decided that I should come home, so he made it a large deal and he told everybody that I was really his son. Then there was this whole custody battle for me because I’m just that big of a prize.”
He even joked that the outcome of the bout helped shape the villain wrestling community see earlier today. “Unfortunately Rey Mysterio picked up that night, and I had to become what I became today.”