Rey Mysterio shares some tricks of his trade as a masked luchador.
Being a masked luchador in pro wrestling requires a seperate skill set to many pro wrestlers, with few being as legendary as Rey Mysterio. With that, Mysterio has had many different designs over the years.
While speaking to GQ about ten essentials he can't live without, Mysterio shared that he carries masks with him on the road that he doesn't wear in the ring.
"I always gotta 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'm wearing right now is a collection of of four masks that were made by Hayashi, an idea that he created, inspired by the band KISS, and in 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 1990, 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."
Dominik Mysterio recently explained why he shoved the WWE Intercontinental Championship in his mother's face after winning it. You can read more about that here.
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