Current Lucha Underground star Chavo Guerrero recently spoke with The Huffington Post, and below are some interview highlights:
Lucha Underground being different:
“Even if you’re not a wrestling fan, if you watch our show, you’re going to like it. The character development, the backstage vignettes, everything we do it’s just really, really good.”
Being taped as opposed to live:
“Every new organization, everybody that starts out, always says they are ‘something new,’ but all they ever are is a bad copy of WWE. All those other companies — WWE, TNA, Ring of Honor — are all live event companies. Their TV just pushes you to their network, gets you to go to their live events or ‘super-sizes’ you to buy their pay-per-views. We don’t have all that stuff.”
Having shorter seasons:
“That’s why you see the WWE guys are all — well, a lot of them — are broken down, pretty much, because they go hard! They go really, really hard. All wrestlers go really hard, but there’s no time [for WWE talent] to heal. It’s easy for them to get burnt out… We’ve killed people — killed characters — on the show, so in a sense, we’re killing wrestlers. You don’t see that anywhere else! They’re not killing off Randy Orton, where you can see his blood splatter against the wall, but we’ve actually done that on Lucha Underground!”
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
