WWE: Rey Mysterio on Career Future, Vince McMahon Docuseries Update, Hollyhood Haley J WWE Tryout Offer Pulled Update

Rey Mysterio Comments on Future of His Wrestling Career

A recent episode of the MMA Hour with Ariel Helwani show featured Rey Mysterio as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Mysterio’s thoughts on the future of his wrestling career and current retirement plans.

“That’s a year away. I’m hoping…I did say 50…If my body keeps responding the way it has…the way I’ve been working for the past 34 years, I’ve modified my work a lot, for the best, but still being able to invest the audience into watching Rey Mysterio. I always like to come up and create moves where fans can say, ‘Wow, he’s still doing it.’ That’s part of my growth and what’s been keeping me healthy to be able to do what I do. ‘You don’t have to keep doing the slide underneath the ropes and hit the ground.’ I love doing it. I like giving the fans something special.”

Mysterio also stated that he is currently planning to give back time to his wife once he retires from wrestling.

“She gave me liberty to say, ‘However, you feel, whenever you say it’s time, I respect that.’ She’s that open to it. I’m hoping that it can be within the next year and a half or two.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Vince McMahon Documentary Production Status Update – Current Release Date Plans

As noted before, an upcoming new wrestling-based documentary series based on Vince McMahon has been in production with executive producer Bill Simmons since 2020. McMahon is currently not expected to have any say or input for the final cut of the upcoming docuseries.

A recent episode of the SI Media with Jimmy Traina podcast featured Simmons as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Simmons thoughts on the current release date plans for the upcoming McMahon docuseries for Netflix.

“I think it’s going to be the first part of next year. Chris Smith is directing it, I don’t know if he’s one of the five best documentary directors or one of the three, whatever shortlist there is, he’s on it. We spent a lot of time on it. I don’t want to say too much….”

Simmons also gave his thoughts on if he has had any contact with McMahon during the production for this upcoming new series.

“Yes. That was the initial conceit of it. I don’t want to say too much, but I think it has the chance to be pretty spectacular.”

Simmons also confirmed that this upcoming documentary will be a set of episodes instead of one long documentary film.

“It’s a few parts. I’m pretty passionate about this. I think people pump…they add parts or make this stuff longer than it needs to be because that’s how you get paid more to do a documentary. I’m anti-that guy. I want these things to be the exact right length. I could never figure it out with my column, my column was always too long, but shaping a documentary is a lot like writing a column and figuring out, ‘I love that paragraph, but I have to cut it out. This moves better if I take that out.’ With documentaries, if someone is doing it correctly, they are amazing pieces of art. It’s not just the director. There are a couple of editors, but there is usually one incredible editor, which we have for this. It’s a lot of people involved and there is real TLC. You can’t think of it like, ‘we can stretch this to six hours. This could be six instead of four.’ I think that’s crazy. This is about Vince McMahon, his life, and wrestling, so obviously, it can’t be two hours.”

Simmons also gave his thoughts on what will be McMahon’s reaction when he watches the final product.

“I don’t know. I would never speak for Vince. He’s been in my life for my entire life. I literally cannot remember my life without him being in it. If you look at him from…strip away all the other stuff and just talk about the last 50 years he had, pretty good topic for a documentary.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Hollyhood Haley J Reveals Reason for WWE Pulling Tryout Offer

As noted before, WWE recently pulled their tryout offer for Ohio Valley Wrestling talent Hollyhood Haley J due to a medical-related issue.

In a recent episode of the Cafe de Rene podcast, Hollyhood Haley J stated that the reason why WWE pulled her tryout offer was due to her dealing with epilepsy and her primary doctor did not want to medically clear her to wrestle at WWE’s recent tryout camp at their Performance Center.

“I have epilepsy and my doctor is not trying to clear me to wrestle. My doctor. So of course, they were like, ‘We need a clearance letter.’ And my doctor was like, ‘No.’ So I’m in the process of finding another doctor to get a second opinion. Because I haven’t had a seizure in over six years. Been off medication for four, been wrestling for almost four years, haven’t had any issues. So I don’t know why they won’t work with me. But, yeah, waiting on a second opinion. Then I should be right back up at the top where I belong.”

Fightful Select reported that their sources within WWE confirmed that the reason why Hollywood Haley J did not attend WWE’s recent set of tryouts last month was due to medical clearance issues on her side. Those spoken to reportedly stated that WWE officials still have plans to invite Hollyhood Haley J for another tryout in the future.

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com