Rey Mysterio Talks Eric Bischoff Wanting Him To Lose His Mask

Rey Mysterio was recently a guest on MLW Radio and during the appearance he talked about an incident involving Eric Bischoff. When presented with the idea of losing his mask at Halloween Havoc in 1997, Rey Mysterio rebelled and Eric Bischoff pushed back by saying he would be in breach of contract.

“I remember getting in there a day or two early before the pay-per-view and we saw Eric [Bischoff] at the Betty Boop Bar, at the MGM Grand [Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada], which is right there at the entrance and I remember I wanted to talk to him. And it was very brief, but I told him that I wasn’t comfortable doing that match, especially, well, I wasn’t comfortable losing my mask. And he was like, ‘Rey, you have to do what you’re told [because] you’re under contract or else you’ll be in breach of contract’, so he was really getting at me that day. That whole week was a nightmare, man.”

Mysterio also revealed how Bischoff reacted when he found out that Rey Mysterio was considering no showing Halloween Havoc.

“He called my house and I picked up. And I guess he had heard that I wasn’t going to show up and he said, ‘Rey, you’d better show up’ and again he mentioned the same thing, ‘or else you’ll be in breach of contract and it’s going to get really ugly’, so I did show up on the night at the bar and the next day, of course, showtime, we set up the match and we were good to go.” Mysterio continued, “Eddie [Guerrero] did tell me, ‘if you don’t want to do this, we don’t have to,’ so he was backing me up 100%. I said, ‘naw, lets just go with it. Lets just do it.’ I want to say a match before ours, the decision was changed, and, again, they were just messing with me.”