It is safe to say that the greatest Luchador of all time is WWE Hall of Famer Rey Mysterio. The wrestling veteran recently revealed the real reason why he carries multiple masks with him while traveling.
Rey Mysterio was recently interviewed by GQ Sports for their ’10 Essentials’ series. During the interview, the Master of the 619 revealed that he always carries a minimum of two Lucha Masks. But he will not wrestle in those masks. They are more for presentations and meet and greets. He also appreciated his costume designer, Hayashi for all his masks.
“This is a must. So, I always got to carry two masks with me. These masks I don’t wrestle in. These are masks that I do only for presentations, like right now. Different type of material, compared to the one that I do wrestle in. But I always gotta rock at least two, sometimes even four, depending on how many days I’m on the road. My costume designer is from Osaka, Japan. And he gets down man. Big ups to Hayashi. This one that I am wearing right now is a collection of four masks that were made by Hayashi. An idea that he created, inspired by the band Kiss. And the back of the mask, the lettering of Rey on the back.
“Ever since I found out what Lucha Libre was, my uncle Rey Mysterio Sr., wore a mask at the beginning of his career and I always wanted to be like him. At the age of 14, 1989, I wore my first mask. I wore it all throughout 1998, maybe ’99, which is when I lost the mask to Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. When I got signed for the first time with WWE, I came back with the mask. Since 2002 to now, I’ve been rocking the mask ever since.”
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The other things that Mysterio names as his essentials are his watch collection, his wedding band, energy drinks, cologne, his iPhone, protein shakes, glasses, mints, and toiletry bag.
Rey Mysterio on the biggest highlights of his career
During the same episode, the Master of the 619 reflected on some of the biggest highlights of his career. He mentioned that one of the iconic moments was when he got to wrestle his son, Dominik Mysterio at WrestleMania 39.
“It’s hard to put some of the biggest highlights of my career in order. One of the biggest ones is getting my first opportunity to be on National TV, making that jump over to the US and being part of ECW, then WCW, we all eventually want to be part of WWE. Getting there in 2002 for the first time, that was like a huge factor in my career. It’s just been a crazy ride man, for the past 36 years. So crazy that two years ago, I wrestled my own son, which is insane if you really think about it. First father and son in the WWE to become Tag Team Champions. And then two years later, we end up facing each other at WrestleMania Goes Hollywood. There’s just so many highlights in my career that I’ve been a blessed man,” Rey Mysterio said.
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