WWE SmackDown star Santos Escobar was recently interviewed on the Wrestling with Freddie podcast, hosted by Freddie Prinze. Part 2 of the interview is available now on all podcast streaming platforms.
Santos Escobar said he always wanted to wrestle in America:
“I wanted to wrestle in America. That’s what I wanted. I wanted to wrestle for the Fed, but I didn’t know how. I come from a Lucha family. I became an international Lucha Libre figure in Mexico, Japan, but I wanted to cross over. I wanted to do it here. I saw people do it before me. I saw of course, Eddie Guerrero, Rey Mysterio, all the people that came back then, El Dandy, Los Villanos, Lizmark, Hector Garza, Halloween, Damian 666, you know, all the people before me, Psychosis,
Santos Escobar said it was not scripted when he tore Dragon Lee’s mask at Survivor Series:
“At Survivor Series, I tore Dragon Lee’s mask. That was 100% non-scripted. That was just the heel in me. I think it’s important that our audience gets that feel because now we have Dragon Lee. Now we have Axiom. Now we have Rey. Now we have more and more people diving into the Lucha culture, but really, really doing it, like the mask and the tradition, the respect that’s behind the mask, so it’s important that our audience knows for a fact that when someone goes against the mask, it means something. It ups the stakes. We were in Chicago of all places. Chicago is Mexico, so when I tore that mask, I could feel the white heat.”
If you use any portion of the quotes from this article please credit Wrestling with Freddie with a h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription.
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