Rey Mysterio: Nobody Believed in Me Because Of My Size, Konnan Was the Vision Behind Who I Became

Rey Mysterio talks back on his mentor.

Rey Mysterio has been around for over four decades of professional wrestling. During his appearance on the No-Contest Wrestling show. He spoke about the man who had the vision for who Rey would become in his career. Konnan gave the Hall of Famer his start and made sure everyone knew who Mysterio was in the span that they worked together for. Here is the full quote below.

“Right after Worlds Collide is when Eddie [Guerrero], Dean [Malenko], Jericho, they were all in ECW. Konnan was there at the time. Now, I got to give respect and mad love to Konnan because he was the vision behind Rey Mysterio,”

“Nobody believed in me because of my size, because I was skinny, I was too short, I didn’t look like a wrestler. So, Konnan opened up the doors in AAA. I made a household name in Mexico City, nationally, and then after that, anywhere that he would go, he would always say, ‘You got to bring Rey and Psicosis.’ That was like the dynamite team right there.”

Mysterio was set to battle El Grande Americano at WrestleMania 41 this past April but suffered a torn groin the night before the grandest stage of them all that has kept him out of action since.

H/t to Wrestling Inc for the transcription.

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