Rey Mysterio hasn’t been seen in a WWE ring for a while but it looks like he’s totally ready to make a return if his body is any indication of how he’s doing.
The former WWE Champion recently spoke to ESPN where he opened up about his current situation and how he’s able to pick and choose his schedule now which is an ideal situation for him.
“I’m not locked up to any company. I’m an independent contractor, as we say. I could go work wherever I want. That’s the beautiful thing about being on this side of the fence. You don’t have a commitment with only one company. You can go around and pretty much wrestle wherever you want. You can choose when you want your off-days to be. That was one of my main priorities when I left WWE.”
“I told myself, once I started feeling aching and I was having hard times getting up from my bed in the morning when I woke up, it was gonna start getting close to that time [to quit]. I was feeling that right towards my end of the last year or so of WWE,” Mysterio said. “It came to the point where I was feeling like that constantly. I didn’t want to fall into another phase of taking either medication to ease my pain. I wanted to use the rest way to heal my body up. Believe it or not, the last two years, I don’t think I’ve felt better.”
He also opened up about why he missed the biggest show in Lucha Underground this season.
“I wanna say that it might have been a mix-up of dates,” Mysterio continued. “We were trying to squeeze some dates in that I didn’t have contemplated, so that might have been the case because they record the shows and air them later. I’m sure that could’ve been fit in somewhere along the line to eventually make me part of that Ultima Lucha, but whatever the case was, I wasn’t part of it. I think the fans that appreciate my work can recognize the fact that there was something missing there.”
WIth Mysterio able to work for the first time in 15 years without a knee brace on, it looks like all the rest and relaxation of working an indie schedule might have paid off for him. But when he was asked about the possibility of making a WWE return at the 2018 Royal Rumble, his response was typical when someone doesn’t want to give any real clues abotu the situation. “Never say never, right?”
But at this rate, if his body is really in the shape he says it is in, who knows what he would be capable of doing upon a return to the ring?
