WWE: Rey Mysterio on Interest in Mask vs. Hair Match Against Dominik, Chad Gable, More News

Rey Mysterio Comments on His Interest in a Mask vs. Hair Match Against Dominik Mysterio

A recent episode of the Impaulsive podcast featured Rey Mysterio as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Mysterio’s thoughts on being interested in a potential mask vs. hair match against his son Dominick Mysterio in WWE in the future.

“Maybe I put my mask on the line against his hair, which is some lucha culture. If I lose that, I take my mask off. If he loses, he shaves his hair off. That might be interesting.”

On the topic of if Dominick would be open to this match idea, Rey stated:

“He talks a lot of crap. Why not? Back it up.”

Rey also stated that there are no actual plans for this match to take place yet but it is something he wants to pitch to WWE officials.

“No, but I will pitch it out. I’ll challenge him. Straight up.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Chad Gable Comemnts on Being Hopeful the Men’s Tag Team Showcase Become a New Tradition for WrestleMania

A recent episode of the Out of Character with Ryan Satin podcast had Alpha Academy’s Chad Gable and Otis as the guests. One of the topics discussed included Gable’s thoughts on the idea of the Men’s Tag Team Showcase match becoming a new tradition for WWE’s WrestleMania events going forward.

“I think when that match got announced (men’s tag showcase at WrestleMania), a lot of people thought, oh, they’re just throwing this on the card to get a bunch of guys a match, you know, whatever, fair enough. But, we didn’t look at it that way. I think all of us treated it like, this is our chance, chip on our shoulder. We got a chance to prove something here that not only did we deserve to be on this show from the beginning but if they’re gonna do it and call it a showcase thing, that’s exactly what we’re gonna give ‘em and don’t be surprised if going forward, this becomes a tradition where they do this showcase thing because we showed them what we can do when they give us an opportunity like that.”

Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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WWE News & Notes

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that WWE is currently set to begin moving their employees into their new headquarters building in Stamford, Connecticut starting next week. Johnson reported that WWE officials are currently expecting their entire staff and divisions to be completely moved into their new headquarters by the end of this year.

Karl Anderson’s wife Tini recently announced on Instagram that she is currently expecting the birth of her fifth child for their family.

As noted before, WWE had planned for Gangrel to make an appearance at their WrestleMania 39 event earlier this month in Inglewood, California. In a recent interview with the Reffin’ It Up with Brian Hebner podcast, Gangrel stated that WWE never actually contacted him to make an appearance at WrestleMania 39. Gangrel stated “They may have discussed it, but my phone never rang. I started reading all the stuff, people were calling me, so I wrote Adam [Edge], ‘Do you know this started?’ He made a joke, ‘these writers think they know everything.’ I laughed. I tried to tell a guy to tell them, ‘No, I wasn’t doing it,’ but he still ran the story anyway. He goes, ‘To be fair, it was pitched, it just never happened.’ It was pitched, but I never heard about it. I didn’t know anything about it. They never reached out to me. I guess, Edge is always pitching something for me. I think pitched SummerSlam for me, but it got shot down.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

WWE recently announced that they will be holding their next investor’s meeting on May 3rd to discuss the results from their fiscal 2023 first quarter.

In a recent interview with SO CATCH by Hal 2 , AEW talent and indies wrestler Bandido stated that he would be interested in the idea of working for WWE in the future. Bandido stated “At some point, I would like to go to WWE. Not in this moment, but I hope after… later. I was in WWE, they invited me to the Performance Center. They gave me a Camaro all that week to drive. That was amazing. I made good amigos. Chris Hero, I saw him in the Performance Center, and now he’s a really, really good friend. I love you, amigo. He’s very nice.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

Fightful Select reported that several people backstage were concerned over Finn Balor’s well-being due to him working at this past Monday’s RAW show despite him being banged up and still recovering from his head injury at WrestleMania 39.

Dave Meltzer reported in a recent episode of the Wrestling Observer Radio that his sources stated that the reason why the previously announced match of Matt Riddle vs. The Miz for this past Monday’s RAW show did not take place was not due to travel-related issues. Meltzer reported that WWE officials had pulled their plans for this match well before they were informed of the travel issues affecting a large amount of their RAW roster. Meltzer also reported that the reason why WWE pulled this scheduled match is currently not known.

Bronson Reed recently announced on Twitter that he had worked at this past Monday’s RAW show despite dealing with a flu illness.

In a recent interview with WrestleZone, former WWE talent Eva Marie stated that she would be interested in the idea of a potential return to WWE in the future. Marie stated “Of course. That door is always open. I mean, we’re in constant talks. When I had originally left, I was filming my first lead action movie, so that door is definitely one of those things that is always open. I’m definitely down to always cause some trouble and stir up some things, that’s for sure.”