Vampiro is getting ready to say goodbye, and he’ll get the chance to do so with people who mean a lot to him.
Vampiro, 56, has been wrestling since 1984. He has competed for AAA, CMLL, and various other companies. He also had a prominent run in WCW, where he held the WCW World Tag Team Championship with The Great Muta. Vampiro recently embarked on a retirement tour, which will include AAA TripleMania XXXII: Monterrey on April 27. There, he will team up with Pagano and El Mesías to face La Secta (Cibernético, Dark Ozz, and Dark Cuervo).
WrestleZone is proud to share an exclusive clip from Vampiro’s new interview with Matt Striker. The full one-hour interview will air for free on Triller TV VOD.
Speaking with Striker, Vampiro discussed his looming retirement match.
“It’s not so much I have a ‘beef’ with him. I have an admiration for the three of those guys because when they — when WWE did The Brood, remember that? It was because another vampire didn’t leave WCW and go there. Don’t want to say who he was,” Vampiro said. “But when I didn’t jump to AAA, they created The Brood, their version with Chessman and Cuervo.
“All these dudes were this big coven of vampires. So to be able to be friends with those guys, I asked for this match because Mesias is the reason I’m so f*cked up, and Ive had so many f*cked up matches, and I got some of my injuries. I went to war with that kid. One of us wasn’t coming home that night, and it happened on many a night.”
Vampiro Prepares To Say Goodbye To His Marriage To Wrestling
Vampiro went on to highlight his history with Cibernetico and his bond with Cuervo. He stated that he would be saying goodbye to his “marriage” to wrestling, which spans four decades. Vampiro noted that it was not a retirement tour but rather a transition as he prepared to enter the next stage.
“Cibernetico, I’ve had some of the most historic matches down here in Mexico,” Vampiro said. “We had a graveyard match way before WCW even thought of it with Sting and me. It was awesome. I had a great victory against him in the King of Kings. I was against him. So there’s something there, and then Cuervo, some of his first matches were against me, and he had his face paint on and stuff like that. He said, ‘Are you okay with that?’ I said, ‘Brother, f*ck yeah, but use this.’ I helped him, and we became friends.
“Cuervo, he’s such a humble kid. I met his wife and his children and his family. So it’s kind of like, yeah, I’m gonna do everything I can to f*cking beat you to death, but I got a lot of love for those guys. So I’m saying goodbye to four decades, you know, I’ve wrestled in different decades. That’s a lot. So I’m saying goodbye to a marriage for forty years. I can’t do it. But if I get to say goodbye to my people the way I want to, it’s not so much a retirement tour, it’s a transition. I’m leaving this to go to this stage. So I’m not coming back, and I don’t want to just leave like everybody else does. I want you to know I see you, I’ve heard you, and I’m grateful that you’re in my life. So that’s what this is, even though there’s gonna be blood and violence.”
TripleMania XXXII: Monterrey will also air on TrillerTV on April 27. More event info can be found on the Triller website: https://www.trillertv.com/watch/triplemania-32-monterrey/2perx/
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