Rey Mysterio Interview And Surgery Update: Is He Going To Work Wrestlemania?

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The Daily Star’s Patrick Lennon has an interview with Rey Mysterio. Mysterio talks about checking in to rehab in 2008 to deal with a pain killer addiction, why he thinks and his fellow luchadors weren’t pushed in WCW, and the difference between breaking in to the business now and when he did it (as a teenager) in the ’90s:

“I think that part of my life is very important. It was a big change. I’ve been wrestling for 20 years now, and after several operations, five on my left knee and three on my right arm, the medication caught up to me. I realised it, my wife realised it, and I knew it was time to make a change for myself, my family and for the business I’m in.

“I had to do the right thing, I was so tired of taking medication to keep me away from the pain; now I’ve learned how to cope with that day to day, and it feels great to be a new man!”

“The biggest problem was that the wrestlers on top didn’t want to elevate another wrestler, and if they weren’t going to elevate a US wrestler, then why would they elevate a Mexican? I think that back then, there was a racial element to it, yes.”

“It’s a lot easier to become a wrestler now, in WWE, the head person in charge of bringing talent in has a look at you and if he thinks you have something they’ll put you in their camp in FCW, which makes it easier! When you don’t have the suffering, everything is easy, but after that suffering you feel like you have accomplished something when you get there.

In other Mysterio related news, ProWrestling.Net’s Jason Powell passes along word the Wrestling Observer that Mysterio is planning on working through his knee injury until Wrestlemania.

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