Zilla Fatu Recalls Growing Up Backstage At WWE Events With Dominik Mysterio
Zilla Fatu recalls growing up alongside Dominik Mysterio at WWE events.
Zilla Fatu recalls growing up with Dominik Mysterio at WWE live events.
For wrestlers, some talent end up on the road with their families, usually when both parents are involved in the industry. However, in some cases, children of talent ended up backstage together while their parents were wrestling and for Zilla Fatu, this meant striking up a friendship with ‘Dirty’ Dominik Mysterio.
While speaking on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Zilla spoke about his earliest memory in the pro wrestling industry, recalling how he and Dominik connected as kids.
“Oh, earliest memory. To be honest, growing up, I’m going to keep it 100. Growing up, I just remember me and Dom, Rey Mysterio’s son, me and him just growing up backstage, just running around, doing little boy stuff and just being wild and not listening to our parents. That’s the only thing I remember, and I remember out of all the kids, because they have other wrestlers’ families backstage, running around. I couldn’t connect with them. Dom was the only person that I could connect with. Obviously, Rey Mysterio was one of my favorite wrestlers, and just remember traveling with Rey, my dad. At one point in time, I did not go to kindergarten. I skipped the whole kindergarten year just to travel with my dad. That’s all I remember, just me and Dom. I always see him here, here, here, here. Then we’re always like running around, getting in the ring, hitting the 619, just normally, naturally.”
Chris would ask about hitting the 619 as a kid, with Zilla noting he used to hit it ‘real smooth’.
“Yes, that was my first move. That was the first thing that I ever did when I was a kid in the ring, and I used to hit it real smooth. Like, like for real.”
Elsewhere in the same interview, Zilla spoke about if he still believes he is ready to sign with WWE. You can read more about that here.
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