Despite hanging up his wrestling boots, Chavo Guerrero has still been one of the active talents in the business. Whenever a wrestling-based television show or a film, he was the one training actors in perfecting wrestling moves to help enhance the authenticity of the show or film.
The former WWE Cruiserweight Champion has also helped Zach Effron and the other stars of The Iron Claw film. When Chavo Guerrero was interviewed on the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast. During the episode, Guerrero shared that whenever there is a wrestling-based television show or film, he is approached to train the actors as long as they can afford him.
“So when I stepped away I was like, What am I going to do? Let me possibly try get into some stunts and some acting this was what my uncle Mondo did when he left wrestling. He retired with you know, a SAG pension that was all about acting in stunts and stuff like that by his mentor, Gene LaBelle, my mentor as well. So I started doing that a little bit and started taking driving courses and high fall courses, and my wife looks at me, she’s like, why are you doing that? You’re not just a stuntman. You’re like, super specialised in what you’re doing.
“And I was like, I guess you’re right. So like, the pieces fell into play and in the right spots, and I became the person for GLOW. And that morphed into, you know, Young Rock and all these different TV shows that I’ve done, you know, like one-offs, like I just did another show on Apple TV called Loot with Maya Rudolph and they had a wrestling scene. They had a wrestling episode. So they called me up and I put Ron Funches to work through it. So it’s like, there’s a wrestling show and they’re calling me and if they can afford me to do it,” Chavo Guerrero said.
Chavo Guerrero only spent 65 days a year in his home when he was a full-time WWE Superstar
While speaking on the same podcast, Guerrero shared that when he was an active wrestler, he hardly got to spend time in his own home. When he retired, things seemed very difficult for him.
“You know, when I stepped away from WWE, I was like, What am I going to do? I just couldn’t be on the road at that time. We were on the road 250 days a year there was one year I was on the road, I was in a hotel room 300 days that year, so I was only home 65 days the entire year. So I was like I can’t do that anymore. Not just mentally but my body I knew my body had started breaking down, I’m gonna have to start getting an exit plan. I should have really started five years before this, 10 years before this, but the Guerreros was wrestling, wrestling, wrestling, wrestling.
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