Booker & Konnan on How Rey’s Son Dominic’s Wrestling Training is
Rey Mysterio made his WWE return in October and wrestled his first singles match for the company in over four years. Mysterio is now 43 years of age, but he still has a lot left to give in the business and wants to wrestle long enough so that he can share a ring with his son, Dominic.
Dominic is currently 21 years of age and has been training for the ring over the last year. Rey has him training in many different styles and up next for Dominic is working with WWE Hall Of Famer Booker T at Reality Of Wrestling. Booker recently joined The WINCLY Podcast where he discussed what he has in store for Dominic, as seen below:
“[Dominic’s] learned just about every form that he needs to learn,” Booker said of Dominic’s prior training, “and now to give him a little bit of a TV run [when he joins ROW] and let him work with some of my guys.
Booker T also said that working a TV style of wrestling is a little different than what Dominic has learned in the past, but Reality Of Wrestling (ROW) has the right people to help train him for that style including Rex Andrews.
Booker T also said that he is looking forward to working with Dominic because he is the son of his favorite wrestler, as seen below:
“It’s going to be awesome to work with the son of a guy I respect so much. A guy who I always said was my favorite wrestler in Rey Mysterio,” said Booker T.
As far as the current wrestlers in Booker T’s promotion, some of them have caught the eye of WWE and will be headed to The Performance Center in the near future.
“A couple of my guys are getting tryouts next month and I’m pretty stoked about it,” revealed Booker. “I don’t wanna say their names as I don’t want to jinx them or anything like that…
Booker T ended up revealing a couple of the names and said his wrestlers, Geno & Bam Harrison, will be getting WWE tryouts next month.
“Both of those guys have worked for me for quite some time,” Booker said of the two.
Konnan also joined the podcast where he talked about working with Dominic who also happens to be his godson, as seen below:
“He’s incredible because he’s not like your typical wrestler or son’s wrestler,” Konnan stated. “He didn’t grow up wanting to be a wrestler. He was very disinterested and all of a sudden he told his dad, ‘I think I want to try this.’
Konnan then revealed one of the factors which led to Mysterio coming back to WWE, as seen below:
“That’s one of the reasons [Mysterio] went back to WWE, because he wants to open up the doors for Dominic,” said Konnan.
Even though Dominic is much bigger than his father, Konnan said that there will always be comparisons between the two and it’s best that Dominic learns many different styles in addition to The Lucha Libre style his father made famous, as seen below:
“There’s going to be comparisons, but Rey wants to make sure his son is properly trained so he’s got him going with Lance Storm. He’s going to send him to Japan. I think he’s going to send him down to Booker T. Fenix is going to train him a little bit. I’m going to train him. He’s going to get real good training so when he goes in there, he looks good and he can take care of himself,” said Konnan.
You can check out both Booker T & Konnan’s entire interview at AudioBoom.com.